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It’s not the forest animals you need to be afraid of. The most dangerous creatures are the greedy politicians.

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2022-08-04

The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are.

—Emory R. Frie, Wonderland
art by Tom Krieger

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2022-07-29

Are all the giants dead?
And are all the witches fled?
Am I quite safe in bed?

—Mary Norton, old bedtime poem
art by Brian Froud

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2022-07-16

Gothic butterfly

by David Aguirre Hoffmann

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2022-07-12

Don’t kiss the beautiful woman who offers you a meal and a bed in her sumptuous chateau hidden deep in the woods. By morning light she'll be a monster, and her house but a pile of rocks and bones.

—Terri Windling, Myth & Moor
art by Christian Schloe

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2022-06-27

The woods always look different at night…as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

—Suzanne Collins

art by Tiffany England

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2022-06-16

The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting.

—Sean Terrence Best
art by Hidayet Üstün

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2022-05-01

Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand
Touch—for there is a spirit in the woods.

— William Wordsworth

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2022-03-23

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

—Maurice Sendak

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2022-02-23