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NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE 
European 
woodlands. 
There are beautiful trees and groves in Eng- 
land, France, and Italy, and there are Black 
Forests, Bohemian Forests, and Harz Mountain 
woodlands in Germany, but the European 
woods are no improvement upon those of the 
Western continent. They are not so varied in 
form and color, nor have they the same fresh- 
ness and wildness. In the Old-World forests it 
always seems borne in upon one that nature is 
playing the drudge to civilization, and that every 
large tree exists only to cast a protecting shadow 
over some house, park, or roadway. Happily, 
in this Western world, the flavor of the wilder- 
ness has not entirely departed. Along many a 
plain and valley nature rears its growths undis- 
turbed, and upon many a mountain-side “the 
trees of the Lord” have not yet wholly become 
the trees of man. 
