| Show SEQUOIA FOREST A OF ANTIQUITY has seen civilizations rise and crash it was possibly only yesterday by geologic time whon when the sequoia forest began its definite existence years at a guess two hundred million years ago it was well established and had fixed habits much as at present passing lightly over years 10 years ago the genus homo perhaps pel naps began to take refuge in its branches in the days daya when moses was a mountain climber on a portion of the earths crust very nearly the th e antipodes of the sinai peninsula penin gula a region that was not to receive the name of california for some forty centuries it a forest of sequoias stretched their green and glossy fingers into the shimmering western sky shy already for an unimagined period through summer and winter cold and heat seed time and harvest harrest day and night it had pressed inch by inch into the firmament cinq by rin ring it had imperceptibly added to its girth I 1 Ki Nine nevah vali and babylon rome anti and carthage tyre find and rose and fell cyrus anti and genghis khan alexander alesander julius caesar and napoleon conquered the world confucius and hudalia Hudd Budd lia jesus and mohammed swayed the realm of the spirit solomon and socrates galileo callice and darwin produced the bitter and potent fruit of the thinking mind homer and verall terell and dante and shakespeare gave to the world of the imagination a local habitation pericles and Asp aspasea asla paolo and francesca launcelot and guinevere counted t ed the world well lost for the b brief 0 e f ecstasy of love the sequoia forest untroubled by the rise and fall of nations unconscious of the sulphurous depths ot of passion and woe of the human spirit unchanged by the cataclysmic changes in the world of human thought though ti mercifully untouched even by terrestrial cataclysms that overwhelmed many a mountain and plain scattered its golden pollen polle n in the alie spring its ripened cones in the fall sang its ita inimitable dreamy song biben hen the winds passed through it almost within sound of its hushing great civilizations came to maturity and sank into the soil so deep that the youngest even now Is inarticulate alice day pra pratt tt in the atlantic monthly |
