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100 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1962








What tremendous, unfathomable power of imagination ... has formed each of the smallest details here, and combined them into a mighty unity. I am no modest person, I think pretty highly of my own talents, and I venture to believe that I might have imagined one or other of the things that surround me. I might have invented the long grass -- but could I have invented the dew? I might have invented the dusk -- but could I have invented the stars? I know ... that I could not have invented the nightingale.The sense of wonder that underlies these lines is typical of Dinesen's sense of wonder at the world she is about to leave behind. As the Tao Teh Ching of Lao tsu expresses, "From wonder into wonder existence opens."