The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . action of trees, rooting themselves in inhospitable rocks,stooping to look into ravines, hiding from the search of glacial winds, reaching forth to therays of rare sunshine, crowding down together to drink at sweetest streams, climbing handin hand the difficult slopes, gliding in grave procession over the heavenward ridges—nothingof this can be conceived among the unvexed and unvaried felicities of the lowland forest. —Ruskin: Modern Painters. S TAND upon the icy summit of any one of the Columbias snow-peaks, andlook
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . action of trees, rooting themselves in inhospitable rocks,stooping to look into ravines, hiding from the search of glacial winds, reaching forth to therays of rare sunshine, crowding down together to drink at sweetest streams, climbing handin hand the difficult slopes, gliding in grave procession over the heavenward ridges—nothingof this can be conceived among the unvexed and unvaried felicities of the lowland forest. —Ruskin: Modern Painters. S TAND upon the icy summit of any one of the Columbias snow-peaks, andlook north or west or south across the expanse of blue-green mountainsand valleys reaching to the sea; your eyes will restupon the greatest forest thetemperate zone has producedwithin the knowledge of where axe and firehave turned woodland intofield or ghostly burn, themantle is spread. Along thebroad crests of the Cascades,down the long spurs that leadto the valleys, and across theCoast Range, lies a wealth oftimber equaled in no otherregion. The outposts of this. Outposts of the Forest. Storm-swept White-bark Pineson Mount Hood. 124 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA
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