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The tree planter and teacher united in one shall be declared the best 

 benefactor of modern times the chief provider for posterity. Morton. 



The man who builds does a work which begins to decay as soon as 

 he is done, but the work of the man who plants trees grows better and 

 better, year after year, for generations. 



To avert treelessness ; to improve the climatic conditions ; for the 

 sanitation and embellishment of home environments ; for the love of 

 the beautiful and useful combined in the music and majesty of a tree, 

 as fancy and truth unite in an epic poem, Arbor Day was created. 



The planting of a tree, the tender care bestowed upon it, the eager 

 watching for new developments in its growth, the tending of a flower 

 bed, the training of a vine, will for many a child prove the "open 

 sesame " into the charmed circle of those forces and factors of the natural 

 world which purify, refine, and ennoble the heart of man. Mull. 



When we plant a tree we are doing what we can to make our planet 

 a more wholesome and happier dwelling place for those who come after 

 us, if not for ourselves. As you drop the seed, as you plant the sapling 

 your left hand hardly knows what your right hand is doing. But 

 Nature knows, and in due time the Power that sees and works in secret 

 will reward you openly. Holmes. 



