Yet I have been a tree in the woods ... dreamed of high rocks, open spaces and sky overhead

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live wisely, to face only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to

teach me, and not to discover, on my deathbed, that I had not lived. to live what was not a life, unless it was absolutely necessary. I

wanted to live deeply, and suck all the marrow of it, live as a Spartan stalwart, so as to destroy everything that was not life, mow wide

and close to the ground and put then life in a corner, reduced to its simplest terms."

Walden. Life in the woods H.D. Thoreau

Inside an old box I found a dusty book called Walden. Life in the woods 1854, and ancient photographs of a distant relative who lived

in the early 1900s.

This discovery intrigued me to the point of narrating through the medium which photography is a story, of an ancestor of mine who

felt the call of the forest to the point of leaving his dearest loved ones and his comfortable life and starting a new life. in the name of

nature.

The forest is a place that has fascinated man since ancient times, an almost evocative magical place, it is the living image of the limit

of man's civilizing action, it is a geographical, psychological and anthropological frontier, in the wood man evokes the labile

primordial boundary between man and beast.

As the Swiss writer Walser said, the forest is like a "green wave, a fluid that envelops and makes man feel the same wood."

© Alice Jankovic - Title: At the first light of dawn
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Title: At the first light of dawn

© Alice Jankovic - Title:White Forest
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Title:White Forest

© Alice Jankovic - Title:You don't have to blame me if I speak to the stars
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Title:You don't have to blame me if I speak to the stars

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Footprints of light in the woods
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Title: Footprints of light in the woods

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Undergrowth
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Title: Undergrowth

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Sweet memory
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Title: Sweet memory

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Presence
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Title: Presence

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Like a bird
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Title: Like a bird

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Forest melody
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Title: Forest melody

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Feather
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Title: Feather

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Nest By building the house, man reveals the same attitude of bees in building the nest
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Title: Nest By building the house, man reveals the same attitude of bees in building the nest

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Scent of cut wood
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Title: Scent of cut wood

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Stone The stone and rocks that have contributed decisively to the development and progress of human civilization.
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Title: Stone The stone and rocks that have contributed decisively to the development and progress of human civilization.

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Contact
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Title: Contact

© Alice Jankovic - Title: The notebook
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Title: The notebook

© Alice Jankovic - Title:Inside the woods
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Title:Inside the woods

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Fern Man
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Title: Fern Man

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Roots
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Title: Roots

© Alice Jankovic - Title: Part of the woods Ancestor in the forest
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Title: Part of the woods Ancestor in the forest

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