Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — Dr. Holmes on Trees. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Holmes on Trees.

I shall speak of trees as we see them, love them, adore them in the Gelds where they are alive, holding green sunshades over our heads, talking to us with their hundred thousand whispering tongues, looking down on us with that sweet meekness which belongs to huge but limited organisms —which one sees most In the patient posture, the outstretched arms and the heavy drooping robes of these vast beings, endowed with life, but not with soul; which outgrow us and outlive us. but stand helpless, poor things, while nature dresses and undresses them.— Oliver Wendell Holmes.