and traversed by sparkling brooks, containing every- 

 thing* to delight the heart of the lover of Nature. It would 

 be a fine thing to have a tract of three or four hundred 

 thousand acres set apart there for the benefit of the 

 people of the South and Middle Atlantic States, for whom 

 it is a far cry to the Eockies. 



Then there are the Northeastern States with their 

 mountains and forests. No other part of Eastern Amer- 

 ica can compare with this for the varied charms of a 

 wild and romantic nature. And as wealth increases in 

 other parts of the country, as the gigantic cities of the 

 Eastern States grow still vaster, as population thickens 

 in the agricultural and manufacturing parts of Ohio and 

 Pennsylvania, of Indiana and Illinois, the love of nature 

 and the desire for health-giving recreation will draw 

 more and more of the population of those cities and 

 states to seek these spots where Nature shows at her 

 loveliest. Do not suffer, therefore, any of the charms 

 they offer to be lost by want of foresight now. 



Save your woods, not only because they are one of 

 your great natural resources but also because they are 

 a source of beauty which once lost can never be recovered. 



Preserve the purity of your streams and lakes, not 

 merely for the sake of the angler but also for the sake 

 of those who live on the banks, and of those who come 

 to seek the freshness and delight of an unspoiled nature 

 by the lake or river side. 



Keep open the long ridges that lead up to the rocky 

 summits of your mountains ; let no man debar you from 

 free access to their tops, or from enjoyment of the broad 

 prospects they afford. 



And keep wide woodland spaces open within the reach 

 of cities, where those who seek quiet and the sense of 

 communing with Nature can go and spend whole days 

 enjoying one spot after another where Nature has pro- 

 vided her simple joys — mingled shade and sunlight 

 falling on the long vistas of the forest, the ripple and 



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