"Engaging with the earth and plants can offer our soul relief and tranquility similar to that which meditation provides us." Like painting, engaging with nature was for Hermann Hesse a pleasant and at the same time creative break from his writing activity, a pursuit with which he spent almost half of his life. It helped him weave the thread of his ideas, to concentrate and meditate.
In this book, the finest prose and poems that the great Nobel laureate author was inspired by nature itself are gathered, in which he described the eternal cycle of life of plants and flowers, ultimately speaking about the journey of man through the passage of time from birth to completion.