"They are beautiful in their peace, they are wise in their silence. They will stand after we are dust. They teach us, & we tend them...!!!"
Poet: Galeain ip Altiem MacDunelmor...!!!
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"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, & no culture comparable to that of a garden...!!!"Poet: Thomas Jefferson...!!!
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"We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love & respect...!!!"
-----------------------------------------"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning & precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life...!!!"
Poet: Hermann Hesse, Wandering...!!!
Poet: Hermann Hesse, Wandering...!!!
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"I tell U one thing I’m upset about: the day after Christmas my Arbor Tree is all dried up, all brown. I went back to where I bought it, & the whole place is gone. This is the last year I buy my Christmas Arbor Tree from one of those fly by night businesses...!!!"
Poet: Jay Leno...!!!
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"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, & though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going & coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, & through space heaven knows how fast & far...!!!"
Poet: John Muir...!!!
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"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines...!!!"
Poet: Henry David Thoreau...!!!
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"Julius Sterling Morton believed that Nebraska’s landscape which lacked Arbor Trees would benefit from having a lot of trees...!!!"
Poet: Haim...!!!
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"Only when the last Arbor Tree has died & the last river been poisoned & the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money...!!!"
Poet: Cree Indian Proverb...!!!
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"The Christmas Arbor Tree inspires a love/hate relationship. All that time spent selecting & decorating, & a week after, U see it by the side of the road, like a mob hit. A car slows down, a door opens & a Arbor Tree rolls out. People snap out of Christmas spirit like it was a drunken stupor, "There’s a tree inside the house...!!!" Throw it anywhere...!!!"
Poet: Jerry Seinfeld...!!!
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"Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven...!!!"
Poet: Rabindranath Tagore...!!!
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"You will find something more in woods than in books. Arbor Trees & stones will teach U that which U can never learn from masters...!!!"
Poet: St. Bernard...!!!
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"It is well that U should celebrate Ur Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of Arbor Trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship, but in Ur full manhood & womanhood U will want what nature once so bountifully supplied & man so thoughtlessly destroyed; & because of that want U will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...!!!"
Poet: Theodore Roosevelt...!!!
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"Love the Arbor Trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year...!!!"
Poet: Chad Sugg...!!!
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"Promises that U make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum Arbor Tree they bear no fruit...!!!"
Poet: Francis Marion...!!!
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"Let the children in our schools, the young men & women in our colleges, seminaries, & universities, with their instructors, co operate in the proper observance of the day by planting shrubs, vines, & Arbor Trees that will beautify the home, adorn the public grounds, add wealth to the State, & thereby increase the comfort & happiness of our people...!!!"
Poet: Governor Fifer...!!!
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