THE HUMAN SIDE OF TREES 



TREES THAT BUILD CITIES 



A brotherhood of venerable trees. 



WORDSWORTH. 



MEN assemble themselves into cities for 

 mutual help and protection. So do the 

 trees. "Union makes strength" is a motto they 

 have permanently adopted. There are hermits 

 among the leaf-clad pioneers, but the great ma- 

 jority, like human beings, prefer to dwell together 

 in vast allied groups. 



In the fierceness of its life-struggle, the tree city 

 resembles a mediaeval town more than it does the 

 orderly human centre of the present day. There 

 is a vigour and primitive relentlessness which indi- 

 cates an untrammelled belief in "the survival of the 

 fittest." 



Every tree city comes into being in a most ro- 

 mantic way. It grows but it does not "just grow," 

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