Excerpt from Round the World, Vol. 7

To walk unseeing among trees is to lose not only much of the beauty of Nature, but also the peace, rest, and beneficence of feeling, which a true appreciation of that wonderful mother gives to the human soul. They afford an almost inexhaustible subject to the pen and pencil of the writer and artist; their characteristics are so different, and so numerous, growing more and more interesting as one becomes familiar with their infinite variety.

That monarch of English and American trees, the oak, formed from the smallest beginnings, and needing a long period of time for the attainment of its perfection, is beautiful from the moment it begins to put forth the buds which later are to develop into a very wilderness of leaves. It is moreover, as modest as it is strong, as hardy as it is beautiful.

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