Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

“ In the old world the woods had been cut over, and only the best timber and orchard trees replanted, for many hundreds of years. It was a very great wonder to white people who came to America, to see hickory, walnut and ash trees, oaks, maples, beeches, elms, poplars, willows, birches and wild fruit trees, flowering shrubs and vines, and even pines and other evergreen trees growing together, in the most natural and friendly way. ”

“ After three hundred years of cutting down trees, we have begun to re-plant and protect them. Even the schools have a tree-planting or arbor day, so little citizens can help in the work of winning back our lost trees. The more you know about trees, the more you can help in this work. Don't you want to know and to love them as Eagle Heart knew and loved them? The first thing to do is to visit trees, and make some pictures of them with your little kodak eyes. (See Arbor Day, Forest Reserve, Forest-service, Lumbering and the names of different trees.) ”