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Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 6, Issue 35, September, 1860
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Title: Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860
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THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. VI--SEPTEMBER, 1860.--NO. XXXV.
AMONG THE TREES.
In our studies of Trees, we cannot fail to be impressed with their importance not only to the beauty of landscape, but also in the economy of life; and we are convinced that in no other part of the vegetable creation has Nature done so much to provide at once for the comfort, the sustenance, and the protection of her creatures. They afford the wild animals their shelter and their abode, and yield them the greater part of their subsistence. They are, indeed, so evidently indispensable to the wants of man and brute, that it would be idle to enlarge upon the subject, except in those details which are apt to be overlooked. In a state of Nature man makes direct use of their branches for weaving his tent, and he thatches it with their leaves. In their recesses he hunts the animals whose flesh
Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 6, Issue 35, September, 1860
by Various