'The world was not different from the way I had known it until then; the grass was green, the fir-trees as familiar as ever, and even the flowers in the grass were not foreign to me.

 'But what struck me was the horrendous twittering of the birds.

 'There had to have been masses of them there, completely undisturbed and quite obviously not yet impaired by poisons, and so forth, as they are in my actual present time.

 'As I inhaled the fresh spicy air I noticed that it was much fresher than in the year 1953.

 'The oxygen content seemed to be much higher.

 'Also the sky appeared quite fantastic to me.

 'It was of such a beautiful and deep azure blue, as I had never before seen.

 'Quite obviously air pollution did not yet rule here in this century.

 'The Sun shone clear and splendidly warm from the sky and for kilometres around there were only woods, hills and meadows in lush green to be seen.

  'Far and wide, no village, no town and no house was to be seen.

 'It was really lonesome and beautiful as in paradise itself.

  'Over in a somewhat more distant forest an entire herd of deer fed peacefully, which took no notice at all of our presence.

 'Obviously these animals were not yet so very shy as in the year 1953.

 'And these pheasants; everywhere one saw pheasants.