A simple dirt road, embedded in a pre-industrial landscape, becomes a place and path of a unio mystica: nature still speaks when an unalienated mind knows how to hear it. From here the journey goes inside and finds the essence. What seems allegorical is meant by Heidegger as a fact of being. Man does not go astray as long as he does not shut himself off from the simple, the real, but he "tries in vain to bring order to the globe through his planning if he is not ordered to the encouragement of the dirt road." - The few pages open up access to Heidegger's work and impressively set the tone of his philosophy. Original title: Der Feldweg