Author: James LawlerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666933294
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Excerpt from The Talking Trees, And, Canadian Forest Trees Then indeed came a new day for the forest. The railway company needed trees for its station houses and its bridges, and many thousand trees were used for sleepers or cross-ties - the pieces of wood to which the steel rails are spiked - and soon the axe strokes were ringing in the forest all day long. When that work was completed we breathed freely again for we thought all danger was past, butsoon we saw carloads of logs and boards going along the railway, always going westward, and we heard that they needed lumber for building houses and schools and churches in the prairie country. At first the news filled us all with horror, but after thinking over it a while the older trees saw that it was what we had been growing for all these years. When we were saplings and half-grown trees we did not want to be cut down: We wanted to go on living simply for the joy of it, but we always had this thought that we were created for some purpose, and that we wanted to live till that purpose was accomplished. As we saw big trees die of old age, or insect attacks, or go down in a wind-storm, we felt that this was not the end for which we were created. It was not for this we wanted to live on. It was not because we wanted to die of old age that we shuddered when the Red Demon killed our brothers and threatened us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.