Literature is not mere words sharing space on a shit of paper; literature is words, but essentially (and contradictory) beyond words. The purpose of this essay is to open a new perception of the complex relationship between humans and environment, a particular relation that is symbolically conveyed by words, rhetoric forms and poetic choices. When we analyze the literary text, we’re penetrating not just the creative mind of the author but the deeper layers of a culture thought, the perceptions of an epoch, the imagery of a human community... all through the meaning power of words in action. Caldas is a small state mostly spawned among the high mountains of Cordillera Central in Colombia. Caldas is at the very centre of the coffee growing lands in Colombia, a land of agricultural experimentation and subsequent dire environmental consequences. This work explores the presence of environmental characteristics in Caldas’ narrative and their relation with actual Caldas’ culture, i. e. the links between reality and fictional creation: spaces, landscape, locations, local and global culture, furniture, commodities, ecologic images, etc. add up to generate what we think could be the deep and real vision that people of this region have about environment, not only surroundings bur faraway, not only factual but mental.