8 EDWARD W. BERRY 



type until it is what we see it today. Let imagination play 

 over the world history enacted in the shadows of these trees — ^the 

 building of the Rockies, the evolution of the mammals and of 

 primitive man. If the building of the tower of Babel, the hanging 

 gardens of Babylon, or the pyramids, are awe-inspiring, what 

 shall we say of the slow formation of the Himalayas, during which 

 faunas came and went while the sycamore line flourished on 

 and on. Beside the sycamore, oak or pine, the Rosetti stone or 

 Elgin marbles are things of yesterday. Why should we not vener- 

 ate our forest trees as we do man-built temples of classic days? 

 When we are confronted by a sycamore that witnessed De Soto 

 crossing the Tombigbee shall we not hesitate at the wanton 

 destruction of what should mean so much to us? 



