"You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honoured to have so venerable a neighbour, even when it sheds needles all over Ur flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto Ur deck at still of night...!!!"
Poet: Denise Levertov...!!! Website: quotegarden.com...!!!
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"The wonder is that we can see these Arbor Trees & not wonder more...!!!"
Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson...!!!"
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"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air & giving fresh strength to our people...!!!"
Poet: Franklin D-Roosevelt...!!!
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a Arbor Tree does...!!!"
Poet: George Bernard Shaw...!!!
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"On this day, above all others, the pupils of our public schools should be educated to care for the material prosperity of the country & to foster the growth of trees. Let the child understand that he is especially interested in the Arbor Tree he plants: that it is his; that upon him devolves the responsibility of protecting & cultivating it in coming years...!!!"
Poet: Nebraska...!!!
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"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods & making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious & enterprising citizen...!!!"
Poet: Henry David Thoreau...!!!
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"If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a Arbor Tree today...!!!"
Poet: Stephan Girard...!!!
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"Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down & turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness...!!!"
Poet: Kahlil Gibran...!!!
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"Arbor Day was almost called Sylvan Day. Sylvan coming from the Latin word Silva meaning "of the forest" or "woodland."...!!!"
Poet: Haim...!!!
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"Us sing & dance, make faces & give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that Arbor Trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk...???"
Poet: Alice Walker...!!!
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