Archduke Luis Salvador of Austria (1847-1915) was a multi-faceted personality: aristocrat and popular, scientist and sensitive lover of nature, great polyglot and tireless traveler, he was also an excellent writer of fine sensitivity. This last aspect is evidenced in his Songs of the Trees.

This little work, written at the end of his life in the garden of his winter residence at Ramleh, expresses the intimate and subtle relationship that the Archduke had with nature throughout his life, particularly in its splendid medieval manifestation. earthy. The text has the virtue of revealing to the reader a new richness of the plant world, that of its sound: the music that the trees create in symphony with other natural elements, such as rain, wind or birds ... that delicious harmony, little attended , that these Songs make us capable of perceiving.