Arbor day Quote by Andrew S. Draper

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

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

— Richard St. Barbe Baker

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