FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



We leave the turmoil of the city and 

 the thousand little cares of daily life 

 and seek refuge for a while in sylvan 

 retreats, in some pleasant leafy forest 

 with murmuring water and sunbeams ; 

 and presently the ruffled concerns of 

 yesterday are smoothed away and the 

 forest, like sleep, " knits up the raveled 

 sleeve of care." 



In the woods there is harmony in all 

 things; all things are subordinated to 

 one purpose and desire: that the best 

 may be made out of life, however small 

 the means. There is a kind of honesty 

 and truth here, and a self-sufficiency 

 in everything, Shakspere says, in the 

 words of Duke Senior, who stands sur- 

 rounded by his followers in the Forest 

 of Arden (" As You Like it," act ii, 

 scene 1) : — 



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