“When I would recreate myself, I [would] seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and … most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum.
—Henry David Thoreau, from Excursions, 1862
“When I would recreate myself, I [would] seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and … most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum.
—Henry David Thoreau, from Excursions, 1862