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 As Thoreau says , asking ""What are the 

 natural features which make a township handsome? .... 

 A river, with its waterfalls and meadows, a lake, a ' 

 hill, a cliff or individual rocks, a forest, and 

 ancient trees standing simply. Such things, are 

 beautiful; they have a high use which dollars and cents 

 never represent... A forest is in all mythologies a 

 sacred place \ as the oakd among the Druids, and the 



grove of Egeria, and even in more familiar and common 



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life, as "Barnsdale" and "Sherwood". Had Eobin Hood 



no Sherwood to resort to, it would be difficult 

 to invest his story with the charms it has. It is 

 always the tale that is untold, the deeds done, and 

 the life lived in the unexplored sfienery of the 

 wood, that charm us and make us children again, to 

 read his ballads and hear of the greenwood tree." 



