Visdende Valley, near the Refuge Forcella Zovo (S. Pietro in Cadore, Belluno)
not easy walking in a forest. First, because it is attracted by a thousand charming distractions, including smells, noises, colors, but then, too, because we are led to a kind of trance interior, meditative concentration and almost empty, in which everything flows and it slows down , almost to a stop.
This is wonderful, because it is a liquid and suspended. It will be because of the silence, it will be on the trees, it will be because the world is far away, you hear and do not bother us, it will be for all that, thankfully, but every time I go back I stay surprised. Every time a new discovery, the renewal of an old emotion. I, too, once I was part of this world. I'm sure.
In the forest you live another dimension, the outlines of objects blurred and it is always lurking in a scrap of magic. For this has always played a mythical and magical, especially in literature.
In the silence of the woods is back for real men.
Books. The secret of the old wood. Dino Buzzati, 1935, Mondadori
