By no other trees are they rendered so extensively and impressively visible, not even by the lordly tropic palms or tree-ferns responsive to the gentlest breeze.

The waving of a forest of the giant Sequoias is indescribably impressive and sublime, but the pines seem to me the best interpreters of winds.

They are mighty waving goldenrods, ever in tune, singing and writing wind-music all their long century lives.

Little, however, of this noble tree-waving and tree-music will you see or hear in the strictly alpine portion of the forests.

The burly Juniper, whose girth sometimes more than equals its height, is about as rigid as the rocks on which it grows.