When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees,
higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky
with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place,
and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

~ Seneca

Sequoia National Park – photo by Jorg Hackemann, bigstockphoto.com