A forest is in all Mythologies a sacred place, as the oak among the Druids, and the grove of Egeria - And what is Robin Hood - without his Barnsdale and Sherwood - It is the life that is lived in the unexplored scenery of the wood that charms us.


In: Robert Sattelmeyer (ed.), Journal 1842-1848 (Volume 2) (p. 37)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

A forest is in all Mythologies a sacred place, as the oak among the Druids, and the grove of Egeria - And what is Robin Hood - without his Barnsdale...

A forest is in all Mythologies a sacred place, as the oak among the Druids, and the grove of Egeria - And what is Robin Hood - without his Barnsdale...

A forest is in all Mythologies a sacred place, as the oak among the Druids, and the grove of Egeria - And what is Robin Hood - without his Barnsdale...

A forest is in all Mythologies a sacred place, as the oak among the Druids, and the grove of Egeria - And what is Robin Hood - without his Barnsdale...