This work features text from a book by W.A.W de Beuzeville, an avid forest ecologist and the author of Australian Trees for Australian Planting (1947). Through this text, Oppen reworks passionate feelings against deforestation and the environmental degradation that comes with it. In chosen texts, Beuzeville also talks of land areas needing to escape from the busy-ness of the industrialised human life. The work features relief prints that expose the horizon as being a harsh, barren line. Through this work Oppen pushes her love for the sacred natural world, and her fear of human life destroying it (and in turn, inevitably destroying itself).
