Deister Forest

The tall brown trunks of the trees are like nature's sentries, guarding the green castle where mother Earth, princess Flower and prince Mossy all live tucked away from the black smoke and grinding noise of urban life. You can join them in this mystical paradise of serenity and birdsong if you but lay down your desires for power and wealth, and set free your child heart to rome the rocks and freshwater streams of this elegant and embracing paradise. The Deister is a chain of hills in the German state of Lower Saxony, about 15 mi (25 km) southwest of the city of Hanover. It runs in a north-westerly direction from Springe in the south to Rodenberg in the north. The chain is well-wooded and abounds in game. From the 17th century on there were several coal mines, the last were abandoned in the 1950s. Sandstone from quarries in Altenhagen (Small Deister) was used in several important building all over Europe, including the opera house in Hanover and the Reichstag in Berlin. Today the Deister is a popular target for people of the Hanover area for walking and cycling. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=117663