On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire … - Ferdinand von Mueller

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Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Ferdinand von Mueller

On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.

Beauty, Feeling, Immeasurable, Inspire, Sadness, Sensitive

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Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation.

Blessing, Generations, Increased, Inheritance, Regard

Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.

Climate, Environment, Hotter, Prevail, Ruthlessly, Timber

Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.

Empires, Nature, Offering, Oxygen, Predominantly, Vegetation

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