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Fruits and nuts are at least the poetry of the 

 dining-table. One may say of trees what the 

 French physician said of water: needed exter- 

 nally, internally, and eternally ! United we stand, 

 but divided we fall, is the history of peoples 

 and forests. Forest-destruction seems to offer 

 the speediest way by which a nation may go 

 into decline or death. " Without forests" are two 

 words that may be written upon the maps of 

 most depopulated lands and declining nations. 



When one who is acquainted with both his- 

 tory and natural history reads of a nation that 

 "its forests are destroyed/' he naturally pic- 

 tures the train of evils that inevitably follow, 

 the waste and failure that will come without the 

 presence of forests to prevent. He realizes that 

 the ultimate condition to be expected in this 

 land is a waste of desolate distances, arched 

 with a gray, sad sky beneath which a few lonely 

 ruins stand crumbling and pathetic in the des- 

 ert's drifting sand. 



The trees are our friends. As an agency for 

 promoting and sustaining the general welfare, 

 the forest stands preeminent. A nation which 



