“You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale.” ~Wallace Stegner
“The great dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder