Susan Fenimore Cooper Quote

It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.


Rural Hours (1887)


It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with...

It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with...

It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with...

It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with...