"I suppose that one must be born, or at least pass his youth in it, to get the way of this vast wilderness.

We of old Europe, where everything has been ruled and measured for many centuries, can have no conception of it until we see it, and even then we do not understand it.

Although with an army about me I feel lost in so much forest.

But enough of that.

It is of yourself and not of myself that I wish to speak.