"At the gates of the forest, the surprised……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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