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The Spirit of the Forest consists of three parts, not independent of each other, but loosely connected to each other, with separate titles.
The first, The Tree-Embracing, talks about what it is like when a hiker opens up to the experience of nature. What are the spiritual conditions for this opening up. (Humility, sensitivity, slowness.)
The second part, Turning into a Deer, borrows the basic motif of Bartók’s Cantata Profana. Whoever the forest opens up to, and is therefore embraced by the spirit of nature, metaphorically turns into a deer. Returning home from the forest, he feels that his walk does not end where it ended.
Finally, we reach The Source. Unlike the first two parts, which evoke the spirit of the oak and beech forests of the central mountains, this part leads us to the floodplain forests of our rivers, to finally turn back towards the beech forests of the mountains, saying goodbye to the spirit of the forest.
Meanwhile, we encounter creatures reminiscent of the primeval forest: the European bison barely saved from extinction, the mother bear herding her cubs, the lynx bringing down a roe deer, the wildcat, the floodplain eagles and wading birds, and we can lose ourselves in the dramatic, transcendental swirl of the mayflies blooming on the Danube, catching a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror of nature.