84 FOREST CULTURE. 
break away from the turmoils and enmities into which 
elsewhere he is thrown by the bustle and struggle of 
the world, and to seek again this calm retreat in forest 
mountains. The existence of many an invalid might 
be prolonged and rendered more enjoyable, while 
many a sufferer might be restored to health, were he 
to seek timely the patriarchal simplicity of forest- 
life, and the pure air, wafted decarbonized in. deli- 
cious freshness through the forest, ever invigorating 
strength, restoring exhilaration and buoyancy of his 
mind. in this young country new lines of railway 
are early to disclose some of the almost paradisic fea- 
tures of sylvan scenery, hitherto known to most of us 
only through the talent of illustrious landscape-paint- 
ers of this city. 
«To sit on rocks, to muse o’er flood and fell ; 
To slowly trace the forest’s shady scene, 
Where things that own not man’s dominion dwell, 
And mortal foot has ne’er or rarely been ; 
To climb the trackless mountain, all unseen, 
With the wild flock, that never need a fold ; 
Alone o’er steep and foaming falls to lean— 
This is not solitude: ’tis but to hold 
Converse with nature’s charms, and view her stores untold.” 
BYRON. 
I regard the forest as an heritage given to us by 
Nature, not for spoil or to devastate, but to be wisely 
used, reverently honored, and carefully maintained. 
I regard the forests as a gift, intrusted to any of us 
only for transient care during a short space of time, 
to be surrendered to posterity again as an unimpaired 
property, with increased riches and augmented bless- 
ings to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to 
generation, 
