In the Woods
The Garden and the Road
Two journeys, one of them still
William Vincent Carleton
Some journeys are roads, long and full of weather. Some are gardens, still and no less adventurous. This eleventh In the Woods book honors both, showing a child how a tended place fills with visitors: migrant wings, a surprise vine, small events. Wealth, it says, is the walk, the loaf, the dog, the moon and the plot: the path already under your feet.
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More from In the Woods
The Cold That Warms You
A Saturday walk when the air is honest
The Stick and the Sapling
One hand in the earth, one hand on the young tree
The Notch in the Breath
A spark in the ribs, and a beat the forest knows
The Forest Bubble
A sphere that stays on the ground
The Room Behind the Heart
The high heart, the pillows, and the rest that lets it work
The Seed and the Loaf
What the grain thought, and what the bread became