Thoughtful Gardening by Robin Lane Fox

Author:Robin Lane Fox [Fox, Robin Lane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

SUMMER

Half an hour later Nikolay Petrovich went into the garden to his favourite arbour. His thoughts were gloomy. For the first time he recognised how far he and his son had grown apart. “My brother says, We are right,” he thought, “and setting all vanity aside, I do myself think they are further from the truth than we are, but at the same time I feel they have something which we don’t, some advantage over us. . . . Youth? No not just youth. Doesn’t their advantage lie in their being less marked by class than we are?” Nikolay Petrovich sunk his head and rubbed his face with his hand. “But to reject poetry?” he thought again. “Not to have a feeling for art, for nature? . . .”

And he looked around him as if trying to understand how it was possible not to have a feeling for nature. Evening was now coming on. The sun had gone behind a small aspen wood which lay a quarter of a mile from his garden and cast its seemingly unending shadow over the motionless fields. . . . Swallows were flying high; the wind had dropped; lingering bees lazily, sleepily buzzed on the lilac blooms; a column of moths danced above a single protruding branch. “My God, how beautiful it is,” thought Nikolay and some favourite lines of poetry were about to spring to his lips when he remembered his son Arkady, the book “Stoff und Kraft” [which the boys had praised], and fell silent. He continued to sit there and continued to indulge in the pleasurable, melancholy sport of solitary reverie. He liked to dream—living in the country had developed that propensity in him.

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