The Beauty of Trees 



WHO would care to live in a house like this? 

 There are no green trees to make the house and 

 the yard cool in summer, none on the bare hills 

 as far as you can see. In some parts of the world, 

 even in the Western part of our own country, 

 there are hundreds of square miles of desert and 

 waste land far worse than this in the picture. As 

 far as the eye can reach there is nothing but 

 piles of drifting sand; nothing to shield the few 

 travelers from the hot glare of the sun at mid- 

 day; nothing to protect them from the great 



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