Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Think me not unkind and rude that I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood to fetch his word to men."
The old man thought the woods around home too dangerous to walk, bears and alligators and rattlesnakes and redneck hunters and ATVs. Co-eds from Gainesville.
But he went anyway. Almost tripped over a Southern pine cone. And it was just like Thoreau said. I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.