"With trees, one can speak as with brothers and exchange one's soul with them," wrote Erich Kästner almost a century ago. What does nature mean to us? A field that we humans have long left behind and overcome? Or rather a place we need for retreat and reflection? The nature poems gathered here, from Friedrich Hölderlin and Joseph von Eichendorff to Rainer Maria Rilke and Hermann Hesse, and up to Günter Eich, Reiner Kunze, and Ingeborg Bachmann, explore the significance that nature holds for us humans.