Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. |
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. |
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal. |