Excerpt from From the Forest Of trees, and here and there a wood, are set in Wide stretches of heather and the short upland grass. They say, too, that it was once all ice. And assuredly there was a time when it was neither ice nor forest, land nor sea, but the womb of seething elements whence these came. I stand, in fact, between two immensities of change, for there is an end to earth as well as a beginning; I stand here, chaos behind me, chaos ahead of me chaos, that is, relative to me, but a pregnant order, I do not doubt, for the Spirit of the Whole, in Whom those seething elements have their being as securely as I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.