The Indian Forester, Volume 29R.P. Sharma, 1904 |
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Page 418 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Page 298 - And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for one moment what is the object of our forest policy. That object is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful, though that is good in itself, nor because they are refuges for the wild creatures...
Page 153 - ... that the world is rapidly approaching a shortage, if not actual dearth, in its supply of coniferous timber, which constitutes between 80 and 90 per cent, of the total British timber imports.
Page 153 - ... private woodlands." They pointed out that almost all civilised states have Forest Schools, that in the United Kingdom there are large areas of waste, and that the woodlands of the Empire, as a whole, are greater than those of any other State.
Page 298 - You can start a prosperous home by destroying the forests, but you can not keep it prosperous that way. And you are going to be able to make that policy permanently the policy of the country only in so far as you are able to make the people at large, and, above all, the people concretely interested in the results in the different localities, appreciative of what it means. Impress upon them the full recognition of the value of its policy, and make them earnest and zealous adherents of it.
Page 298 - ... good in itself, nor because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness, though that, too, is good in itself; but the primary object of our forest policy, as of the land policy of the United States, is the making of prosperous homes.
Page 554 - But this is a false view; we forget that each species, even where it most abounds, is constantly suffering enormous destruction at some period of its life, from enemies or from competitors for the same place and food...
Page 300 - ... country are already seriously depleted. They can be renewed and maintained only by the cooperation of the forester with the practical man of business in all his types, but above all, with the lumberman. And the most striking and encouraging fact in the forest situation is that lumbermen are realizing that practical lumbering and practical forestry are allies, not enemies, and that the future of each depends upon the other. The resolutions passed at the last meeting of the representatives of the...
Page 298 - It is part of the traditional policy of home making of our country. Every other consideration comes as secondary. The whole effort of the Government in dealing with the forests must be directed to this end, keeping in view the fact that it is not only necessary to start the homes as prosperous, but to keep them so.
Page 299 - The forest problem is in many ways the most vital internal problem in the United States. The more closely this statement is examined the more evident its truth becomes.