Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover. — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized.… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“IT’S ARBOR DAY! LET’S HUG TREES AND EAT CAKE! COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It’s Thursday, March twenty-ninth!” she basically screamed, a demented smile plastered to her face. “You are really excited about knowing the date!”… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. — Stephen Girard Copy Share Image
The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children,… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man. — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. — John Muir Copy Share Image
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky? — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
