Passage 4: from Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)

I had never seen, had scarcely imagined, human beings undertaking such a work as the deliberate replanting of an entire forest area with different kinds of trees. Yet this seemed to them the simplest common sense, like a man's plowing up an inferior lawn and reseeding it. Now every tree bore fruit-edible fruit, that is. In the case of one tree, in which they took especial pride, it had originally no fruit at all-that is, none humanly edible-yet was so beautiful that they wished to keep it. For nine hundred years they had experim

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Passage 4: from Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1915)

I had never seen, had scarcely imagined, human beings undertaking such a work as the deliberate replanting of an entire forest area with different kinds of trees. Yet this seemed to them the simplest common sense, like a man's plowing up an inferior lawn and reseeding it. Now every tree bore fruit-edible fruit, that is. In the case of one tree, in which they took especial pride, it had originally no fruit at all-that is, none humanly edible-yet was so beautiful that they wished to keep it. For nine hundred years they had experim