What is a forest but a city of nature’s own, full of hardy and innocuous living things, where there is nothing dead and nothing made with the hands, but the citizens themselves are the houses and public monuments?
森林不就是大自然自己的城市吗?里面满是顽强而无害的生灵,没有死物,也没有人工造物,居民本身就是房屋与公共纪念碑。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · An Inland Voyage · On the Sambre Canalised: To Landrecies —