Usefulness of trees

We are not now to enumerate the great usefulness of trees,-their value in the construction of our habitations, our navies, the various implements of labor,-in short, the thousand associations which they suggest as ministering to our daily wants; but let us imagine the loveliest scene, the wildest landscape, or the most enchanting valley, despoiled of trees, and we shall find nature shorn of her fair proportions, and the character and expression of these favorite spots almost entirely destroyed.