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The Winds and the Woods: March: Wings

II. THE WINGS OF THE WIND One thing the foresters had to learn by experience in selecting the groups to be left for "mother-trees" was that they should be on the ridges and higher points of land where they are most exposed to the winds, so that the seeds will be carried as far as possible. And yet I suppose practically all of us know perfectly well that seeds fly "on the wings of the wind," to use the grand, poetic phrase of the Bible; which only goes to show again that we may have valuable information in our heads and yet fail to put it to use at first, when some occasion requires it.