Il respiro del bosco è il respiro della vita, l'uomo albero nella società. Da Thoreau a Ferrarotti

The doctrine of the forest is as old as human history. In the popular imagination, the different levels of the cultural and literary competence, around the image of the forest coagulates a number of connotations and suggestions all in all similar and common, ranging between a positive idea, that of lush green environment, teeming with life and pristine, quiet and relaxing, and a negative view of the dark and mysterious, impenetrable entities, scary, hostile. But there are those who, like Franco Ferrarotti, dean of Italian sociologists, and professor emeritus of sociology at the Faculty of Rome La Sapienza, assigned to the forest and its breath, a central place in human life, recognizing the merit high to sustain life, and to be life. As Thoreau when he says that the only weapons literary scholar who is incomplete, in fact, that he must "learn" the language of nature, but we must go beyond philosophical speculation and doctrinal Ferrarotti holds that man must be "practical", live the reality of nature to understand and understand himself, to be desired in his case to be born tree, and make sure that the immortality which is denied to men.