Excerpt from Report on the Disastrous Effects of the Destruction of Forest Trees, 1867: Now Going on So Rapidly
Both past history and present experience show that a country destitute of forests as well as one entirely covered with them is only suited to the condi tion of a barbarous or semi barbarous people. Deprive a people of the com~ forts and conveniences derived directly or indirectly from forest products, and they soon revert to barbarism. It is only Where a due proportion be tween the cultivated land and the forests is maintained that man can attain and enjoy his highest civilization.
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