Tuesday, April 4

forest

In the landscape of the mind, whatever is planted early lasts and grows through time. Reality may be a featureless-suburban street; but the mind of the fairy-tale reader holds mountains, oceans, distances, a forest that is haven, shelter, and mystery, some day to be explored, with a pathway that leads to the very edge of the world.

-- Naomi Lewis, in the Introduction to Classic Fairy Tales to Read Out Loud