Inside only, it bristles horrific.

And it terrified the Romans.
The Romans! They too seem very near.

Nearer than Hindenburg or Foch or even Napoleon.

When I look across the Rhine plain, it is Rome, and the legionaries of the Rhine that my soul notices.

It must have been wonderful to come from South Italy to the shores of this sea-like forest: this dark, moist forest, with its enormously powerful intensity of tree life.