The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
