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Enos A. Mills (1870-1922) http://tinyurl.com/EMills

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Universal Kinship

From The Adventures of a Nature Guide, 1920. Read Online Download PDF

Reader: Daniel Maloney

Known as the "Father of Rocky Mountain National Park," naturalist Enos A. Mills was a friend of John Muir and like him was devoted to deciphering the language of nature.

Enos Mills once wrote that "trees have tongues," and though he acknowledged the "silent eloquence" of California's mighty sequoias, it was the timberline trees of his beloved Rocky Mountains that he thought told a better story.

"Big Tree" postcard, photographer, date unknown. Larger.

The Big Trees of California are the greatest living wonders of the world. In the serene Sierras they have achieved the dignity befitting the largest and oldest living things upon this earth. Compared with these Big Trees the timberline trees of the Rockies are pygmies and infants. Yet who shall say that the life story of the timberline tree is the less inspiring. To stand beneath the Big Trees is to feel the silent eloquence of the "noblest of a noble race." To stand above the dwarfed and battered front ranks of the intrepid timberline forests, where the Storm King reigns and the eagle soars, is to live with fired imagination through all the long years of battle, and to feel the triumphs of the unconquerable. Timberline touches the heart with a sense of universal kinship.

Enos Mills included a number of magazine articles in The Adventures of a Nature Guide, which appeared in 1920.