THE WATERS 



"The water, more productive than the earth, Nature's 

 storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders, is the eldest 

 daughter of the creation, the element upon which the spirit 

 of God did first move." IZAAK WALTON. 



Trout Lake, near Ophir, Colorado. 



L A N T and preserve trees and shrubbery 

 as near as possible to the streams, rivers, 

 ponds, and lakes. Foliage, including 

 herbs and flowers and fruits, though as 

 Walton says, produced by water, is the 

 natural purifier and protector of water. 

 The largest bodies of water suffer from 

 constant exposure to the sun, and fair- 

 sized rivers and ponds are often dried up 

 entirely by the destruction of trees. 



u The groves were God's first temples." 



Naturally the fishes, too, find protection in foliage. 

 They thrive better where there is an equal proportion of 

 light and shade, and their food is more abundant, natural 

 and wholesome where the waters are surrounded by 

 luxuriant foliage. 



Don't destroy the trees yourself, and don't permit 

 others to destroy them. 



Be ever watchful of the ignorant immigrant. His first 

 impulse on arriving on our bountiful shores from his native 



