You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its…

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted…

— Julius Sterling Morton

Forests are the lungs of our land…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

— Kim Stafford

The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar…

— Andrew S. Draper

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an…

— Henry David Thoreau

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“IT’S ARBOR DAY! LET’S HUG TREES AND EAT CAKE! COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!, etc.”

— John Green

“It’s Thursday, March twenty-ninth!” she basically screamed, a demented smile plastered to her face. “You are really excited about knowing the date!” I yelled…

— John Green

God cannot save them from fools.

— John Muir

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

— Stephen Girard

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

— George Bernard Shaw

The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children, with the…

— Andrew S. Draper

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet…

— Joyce Kilmer

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

— Julius Sterling Morton

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

— Henry Ward Beecher