Books present ideas, rational ideas, which militate against the deeper unity of the human race. It is the cult of reason, playing to the artificiality of sophisticated urban life, that has alienated men and women from each other. The answer, then, is to return to that experience of rural life and of the natural world to which it is so close. That takes us to the heart of who and what we really are, and that is also a turn inward, from the false sophistication of outward society to the unalloyed and uncorrupted movements of the unspoiled heart.
