Monday, June 27, 2011

Foxy & Swan & Wisent




These images (especially the fox) by Stefano Unterthiner remind me of the long silent walks I took in the forest near our house when I was young.

I had read the book "Försters Katja" (which would translate as something like: Forest Ranger's Daughter Katja) by Ilse Kitzinger and Katja went deerstalking in the book, which inspired me to do the same. I remember how I was overwhelmed how much is to discover and observe when you just walk alone, silent and calm with your eyes open for what is going on around you, how close you can come to the animals. I guess it was one of those "nature-experiences" that still impress and mould me today.

The book is from 1968 already, my mother read it when she was a young girl and I loved to get all her old books out of the cellar and devoured them! And I will definitely keep them!

2 comments:

Julia Walter-Herrmann said...

http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1639/ts1639.php

ein bisschen försters katja für erwachsene kulturwissenschaftler ;)

lg julia w.

Jana said...

haha, man kann auch alles verkulturwissenschaftlern :)

Danke! und lieben Gruß (nach Bremen?)