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?

~ Luci Anneu Seneca

Olympic National Park – Elwha Valley – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission