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Excerpt from Commercial Forestry in Britain: Its Decline and Revival
The utility of forests to a nation is one of the economic factors to its well-being which has been brought to an unforeseen and unexpected prominence during the waging of the World War. And perhaps to no other European nation has this unlooked-for develop ment proved so startling, because so totally un expected, as to ourselves. Forestry in its general aspects as it affects our country both in peace and war is a branch of economic industry of which the British public has known very little in the past. And it is perhaps not surprising that they Should have remained in ignorance of its importance. For we have no forests in Britain in the sense in which the forest is understood in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We have woodlands, and exceedingly pretty they are, as we all know. From the point of View of the picturesque few things are more beautiful than the British woodland, with its old gnarled trees or tapering heavily branched firs and pines and latches; its open glades revealing stretches of green sward, of bracken, or a tangle of bramble, brier.
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