The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Salt Path

The words withstand the full brutality of day. We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. . . . In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

Before walking toward the forest’s edge, I offer a silent goodbye to the gray-green waters of the Pacific.

The rest of his time he spent in a liturgy of habits that protected him from unhappiness. Every so often, on a windy day, he went to the lake and spent hours looking at it, because, drawn on the water, he seemed to see the inexplicable spectacle, light, that had been his life.