I looked at that wife, and of a sudden, the anger in my heart melted away. It was a wilderness vast and dreadful to which she had come. The mighty stream, the towering forests, the black skies and deafening thunder, the wild cries of bird and beast, the savages, uncouth and terrible, – for a moment I saw my world as the woman at my feet must see it, strange, wild, and menacing, an evil land, the other side of the moon.

Mary Johnston, To Have and To Hold