Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS IN PARKS AND FORESTS By SMITH RILEY. District Forester w "The paths, the woods, the heavens, the hilis, Arc not a world today, But just a place God made for us In which to play." HO of US but does not love the mountains with that we are walking in the their- snow-capped i)eaks and forests and tuni- with God of the open air." b 1 i n " streams ? More and more we are coming to real- ize that the Na- tional Parks and Forests of o u r country a r c na ture's playground, set aside as vaca- tion joy lands for little folks a n <1 big. John Muir once said: "T h e tendency now - a - day."^ t o wander in tht; wil- derness is delight- ful to see. Thou- sands of tire d. nerveshaken, over civilized people are beginning to fii.d out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and tluit moun- tain parks and reservations are useful, not only as fountains if timln-r .-uul ir- rigating rivers, b u t as fountains of life. "So we wander in search of mountain wild flowers, following the trails that lead to the alpine meadows, listening to the bird songs as we pass, wrapped in the peace of the perfect hills, while all about us the infi- nite beauty of things cre- ated, the magic of the sum- mer skies, the strength of the far-flung bastons, the ))urity of the eternal snows, and the glory of the flow- ers that bloom above the clouds, bid us remember
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^■"■11^.' 11' WORK I\ 11LL All; (_;c_)i_)ll 11 )K lil I- M Here we catch a glimpse of the Boy Scouts, in camp on the Pike National Forest in Colorado at their regular morning exercises, part of the routine of camp life.

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