Madison Timber

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“The essence of government is power, and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“Here commences what was called, twenty years ago, the best timber land in the State. This very spot was described as “covered with the greatest abundance of pine,” but now this appeared to me, comparatively, an uncommon tree there,—and yet you did not see where any more could have stood, amid the dense growth of cedar, fir, etc.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)