FOEEST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



fallen leaves, motionless or hurrying 

 along before the wind. These gather 

 into deep beds, soft to the tread, and 

 at last molder away in the moist, rich 

 earth. In the needle-bearing forests 

 of the mountains brilliant green mosses 

 replace the shrubs and flowers and deck 

 the bare brown earth. 



There are lifeless sources of beauty in 

 the woods, too, that are not easy to 

 pass by unnoticed: rocks with interest- 

 ing forms and surfaces ; forms that are 

 lifeless, yet take on distinct expression 

 by their different modes of cleavage, 

 and surfaces that drape themselves in 

 the choicest paraphernalia of drooping 

 moss and rare lichen; prattling moun- 

 tain streams; cascades; and glassy 

 pools. These are " inanimate " things 

 with a kind of life in them, after all. 

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