Our national parks . ALPINE PHLOX AND POLEMONIUM CONFERTUM WILD GARDENS OF THE YOSEMITE PAKK 169 A single pine or hemlock or silver fir in theprime of its beauty about the middle of June iswell worth the pains of the longest journey;how much more broad forests of them thousandsof miles long ! One of the best ways to see tree flowers is toclimb one of the tallest trees and to get intoclose tingHng touch with them, and then lookabroad. Speaking of the benefits of tree climb-ing, Thoreau says: I found my account inchmbing a tree once. It was a tall white pine,on the top of a hill; and though I go
Our national parks . ALPINE PHLOX AND POLEMONIUM CONFERTUM WILD GARDENS OF THE YOSEMITE PAKK 169 A single pine or hemlock or silver fir in theprime of its beauty about the middle of June iswell worth the pains of the longest journey;how much more broad forests of them thousandsof miles long ! One of the best ways to see tree flowers is toclimb one of the tallest trees and to get intoclose tingHng touch with them, and then lookabroad. Speaking of the benefits of tree climb-ing, Thoreau says: I found my account inchmbing a tree once. It was a tall white pine,on the top of a hill; and though I got wellpitched, I was well paid for it, for I discoverednew mountains in the horizon which I had neverseen before. I might have walked about thefoot of the tree for threescore years and ten, andyet I certainly should never have seen , above all, I discovered around me, — it wasnear the middle of June, — on the ends of thetopmost branches, a few minute and delicate redconelike blossoms, the fertile flower o
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