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

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

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.

It's my generation's time to shine and blossom. May our ancestors be proud of what we have done and will do. I pray our strength in the Lord.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

We all should be in a foul mood to make sure we get down to earth.