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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