Forest primeval

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight.

Here is the forest primeval, thick with slender pine, fir, hemlock, spruce, cedar and arbor vitæ, the trunks gloved in moss of orange-green, the branches hung with brown Spanish moss, the ground white, yellow, and purple with luxuriant flowers.

The "forest primeval" is our most valuable inheritance. It is the ready cash of nature's bountiful provision for our future.

It is in these small remnants of the forests primeval, usually located in remote forest regions, that one finds the most delightful resting places and the choicest beauty spots within the Key-stone State.

Here tower redwood trees which knew Earth before the Shepherd's Star, were forests primeval at the time of the Crusades, and were finishing a generation of centuries ere Columbus landed ... the oldest living things.

Increasingly, people across the nation are seeking out this last expanse of the forest primeval, a land of Sitka spruce and western hemlock over 400 years old that tower over all that walks below.