For Tacitus, the land of the Germans is "terrifying through its forests," while in Shakespeare, Macbeth's mysterious prophecy comes true: "The forest began to move." The "forest boy" Peter Rosegger experiences the Styrian forests as an existential adventure, and Henry David Thoreau wants to "practice the difficult art of living" in the woods. The forest book presents unique forest experiences in prose and poetry, from Eichendorff to W. G. Sebald, from Madame de Staël to Sarah Kirsch, from Little Red Riding Hood to Thomas Bernhard's woodcutting. The anthology is complemented by colorful photographs by Sabine Wenzel from her singular cycle The German Forest.