...rural life...connection to a place...ethical land use...art of place...music and dance in a barn..."Forestals are beings who serve the forests of the Land, the remnants of the One Forest, the great sentient wood which once covered the Land. They are human in appearance, but according to the Elohim they were created by the One Forest itself using knowledge from another Elohim imprisoned within the Colossus." (from Wikipedia entry on Thomas Covenant novels of S.R. Donaldson)