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

Forest in Sunbeams – “Czech Paradise” – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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