id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 26935 Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Conservation Reader .txt text/plain 50094 3126 86 Nature is very careful in her way and never makes the soil poor by The natural wealth of our country is its soil, water, forests, minerals, the birds carried the seed to the open fields and so the forests began forest trees than it is to destroy the species of animals and birds. animals and birds that destroy vast numbers of useful ones. there many years, that we may learn just how Nature makes the soil. The part of the soil which the water carried away to form the rich The roots of the tree grip the soil like the fingers of a great hand.] [Illustration: A forest of great trees in the Sierras, near the Yosemite Although man has more need for forest trees than has any other animal, The work of the water where the forest has been cut away.] the flowers, trees, birds, and animals as they were before the country ./cache/26935.txt ./txt/26935.txt