"You go to the woods and lie down under an open sky, where there is more room for those who are strangers among men and for birds in flight. And you find a bed in a damp patch, you lie on your stomach on the marshy ground and take pleasure in getting thoroughly soaked. And you bury your head in the reeds and soggy leaves and crawling things, and soft little lizards crawl on your clothes and onto your face and look at you with their green velvety eyes."
"The beauty and stillness of the night filled him with such elation that his breath came in gasps and his eyes filled with tears. 'What magic in these white nights.'"
quotes took down two years ago in a book.
from Knut Hamsun's Mysteries, translated from Norwegian, I'm not sure the publisher nor translator...
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