The Sources

"NRF" Collection.

"In this chronicle, which is also a poetic meditation, our main natural assets – springs, trees, wild animals – become all the more important as they are threatened, on the verge of disappearing or being saved. Never will the world have been more fascinating, richer in lessons than in these moments when its fate hangs in the balance. The "materialist mysticism" defined by Roger Caillois, and which imbues this work, can only lead to a new humanism. Most of the facts reported in these pages indicate this, and one understands that the great shadow of Bernard Palissy, one of the most inspired men in our history, occasionally passes through them."

ORIGINAL EDITION on publisher's paper.