from/for?

[Kim & Rima McKinzey]

In today's SF Chronicle, an article about the San Francisco
prosecutor chosen for the Enron probe, has the following quote:

"She can see the forest from the trees."

I know this is a twist on the "can't see the forest...  - but isn't
it FOR the trees?

Is this another of those changes (like eating your cake and having it
too, or could care less) due to someone thinking you had to climb the
tree to see the forest, maybe?

Rima