" The forest grows ferns and trees; it cultivates mushrooms and spores; it fosters its creatures from nothingness to more of the mulchy same. And for Jason, the seeds of backbone, of entitlement, were nurtured in the fertile hollow that had dropped the bottom out of civilized advancement. The forest insisted. It pushed back. At some sudden swell of that’s-enough, it emphatically refused to be overrun by bullying machinery and someone else’s idea of what it should be. "

― Jamie Mason , Three Graves Full