Forest Culture in Its Relation to Industrial Pursuits: A Lecture, Delivered by Baron Ferd, Von Mueller on 22nd June, 1871 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mueller, Ferdinand Von

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330609891 ISBN 13: 9781330609897

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Forest Culture in Its Relation to Industrial Pursuits: A Lecture, Delivered by Baron Ferd, Von Mueller on 22nd June, 1871 Then followed the first gold period, with all its bustle, turmoils and agitations, preventing reflection on almost anything except the immediate wants of that stormy time. Subsequently, when the commotion and excitement of the earlier gold era had calmed down, other obstacles arose, which in their conflicts brought much sadness on this young country, and retarded for years its full progress. But now, when apparently also these difficulties have been surmounted, it will be all the more incumbent on our statesmen and legislators, to exclude no longer from their consideration and watchfulness that remaining portion of a bequest, which bountiful nature, in its rich woods, has entrusted to our care. The maintenance of these forest riches should engage not only the loftiest forethought, but also a well-guided and scrupulous vigilance. How forests beneficially affect a clime, how they supply equable humidity, how they afford extensive shelter, create springs, and control the flow of rivers: all this the teachings of science, the records of history, and, more forcibly still, the sufferings or even ruin of numerous and vast communities, have demonstrated in sad experiences, not only in times long past, but even in very recent periods. In what manner the forests arrest passing miasmata, or set a limit to the spreading of rust-spores from ruined cornfields; in what manner their humid atmosphere and their feathered singers effectually obstruct the march of armies of locusts in the Orient, or hinder the progress of vast masses of acrydia in North America, or oppose the wanderings of other insects elsewhere - all this has been clearly witnessed in our own age. How the forests, as slow conductors of heat, lessen the temperature of warm climes, or banish siroccos; how forests, as ready conductors of electricity, much influence and attract the curren

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330609891
• ISBN 13: 9781330609897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60