Lines 327-48 from Book II of Wordsworth’s The Excursion (1814).

William Green, The Tourist’s New Guide. Green, a surveyor, artist, and engraver, was a friend of Wordsworth known for his
many prints of the Lake District. His extensively illustrated two-volume guidebook,
which first appeared in 1819, was a natural extension of the artwork he had done in
the Lakes over the previous decade.

In “Section Third” of the Guide, Wordsworth elaborates at some length on his reasons
for opposing the spread of larch plantations in Cumbria.