“I have learned many new secrets in the Wilderness – whatever’s in a Word are Spiritualized by Unusual Light–The Scarlet Letter was Hester’s Passport into Regions where Other Women dare not tread--Shame, Despair, Solitude—Mystic Sisters Stern & Wild had made her Strong—The exhilarating effect of Breathing the Wild, Free Atmosphere of unredeemed lawless regions--such was the sympathy of nature – the Wild Heathen Wood of the Forest never subjugated by human law—filling of Radiance”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter