FOREST 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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