Our Name

Our name, Yellow Wood Recovery, was inspired by Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. How often have we stood in our own yellow wood, having to choose a road, and knowing that whichever road we choose, we’ll never travel the other road as the person we are at that moment. Even if we could return to that same yellow wood where the roads diverged, life’s experiences would have changed us.

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.