If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a who...le bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundre...d years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »