The forests were foris, ‘outside.’ In them lived the outcasts, the mad, the lovers, brigands, hermits, saints, lepers, the paquis, fugitives, misfits, the persecuted, wild men. Where else could they go? Outside of the law and human society one was in the forest. But the forest’s asylum was unspeakable. One could not remain human in the forest; one could only rise above or sink below the human level.
-Robert Pogue Harrison
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