I nearly deleted it.  The email’s subject line was “FoulMatter”—an obvious Internet phishing scheme, I thought. A Russian heiress was embroiled in some “foul matter” and needed my Social Security number so she could deposit money i…

“In wildness,” Thoreau contended, “is the preservation of the world.” Robert Frost said, “The word 'wood' means 'mad' … I want to go wild in the woods.”