birch-roots

Updated: August 28, 2026

The glaciers totter and groan, as if in anger at their own weakness, and send huge avalanches of stones and ice down into the valleys. The rivers swell and rush with vociferous brawl out over the mountainsides, and a thousand tiny brooks join in the general clamor, and dance with noisy chatter over the moss-grown birch-roots.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - Tales from Two Hemispheres