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and consequently the most distinguished forester in the 

 world — the President of the United States. 



To him who in the love of nature holds 

 Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 

 A various language — 



and Theodore Roosevelt has held communion with 

 nature possibly more extensively and certainly more 

 intensively than any of the rest of us here. He has 

 learned to know nature, and consequently the forests, 

 from their romantic and practical sides, and he has 

 demonstrated his practical sympathy with the forestry 

 movement as has no other in this country. 



Another high forester, who has been an efficient 

 stimulus to forestry and along effective lines, is the 

 President of the American Forestry Association, the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson. Of him 

 Senator Mark Hanna, the sincerely lamented states- 

 man from the Buckeye State, said to a great audience 

 of lumbermen assembled in this city two years ago : 



" 'Uncle Jimmy' knows his business and he has 

 taught the people of this country on the farm, in the 

 forests and in the mines — all of the great productive 

 interests of the United States — more in the five or six 

 years he has been at the head of that department than 

 all the rest of the scores of the departments put 

 together. He is the right man in the right place. 

 And it makes no difference what changes may come 

 in the political atmosphere here, we will keep him here 

 if we have to run him on a separate ticket." 



Another forester among us, of national reputation, 

 and a fame peculiarly his own because his work has 

 been and is largely altruistic, has given a large per- 

 centage of the present impetus to forest work — Gifford 



