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NEW YORK STATE PROGRAM, 1889. 
Second Pupil: 
“ I shall speak of trees, as we see them, love them, adore them in the fields where they are alive, holding 
their green sunshades over our heads, talking to us with their hundred thousand whispering tongues, look¬ 
ing down on us with that sweet meekness which belongs to huge but limited organisms—which one sees 
most in the patient posture, the outstretched arms, and the heavy drooping robes of these vast beings, en¬ 
dowed with life, but not with soul —which outgrow us and outlive us, but stand helpless, poor things — while 
nature dresses and undresses them.” Holmes. 
Third Pupil: 
“ Give fools their gold and knaves their power; 
Let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; 
Who sows a field, or trainsa flower, 
Or plants a tree, is more than all. 
Fourth Pupil: 
“ There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, 
a sweet and generous nature to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship 
for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of 
rural economy. * * * He who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. 
Nothing can be less selfish than this.” Irving. 
Fifth Pupil: 
“What conqueror in any part of ‘Life’s broad field of battle’ could desire a more beautiful, a more 
noble, or a more patriotic monument than a tree planted by the hands of pure and joyous children, as a 
memorial of his achievements.” Lossing. 
Sixth Pupil: 
For he who blesses most is blest; 
And God and man shall own his worth. 
Who toils to leave as his bequest 
An added beauty to the earth.” Whittier. 
Oh ! Rosalind, these trees shall be my books. 
And in their barks my thoughts I’ll character. 
That every eye which in this forest looks. 
Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere. Shakespeare. 
Seventh Pupil: 
“ There is something unspeakably cheerful in a spot of ground which is covered with trees, that smiles 
amidst all the rigors of winter, and gives us a view of the most gay season in the midst of that which is the 
most dead and melancholy.” Addison. 
Eighth Pupil: 
"As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer 
atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth 
peace and philanthropy.” Irving. 
Ninth Pupil: 
“ I care not how men trace their ancestry, 
To ape or Adam; let them please their whim; 
But I in June am midway to believe 
A tree among my far progenitors, 
Such sympathy is mine with all the race. 
Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet 
There is between us.” Lowell. 
Tenth Pupil: 
“ Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy. Since they cannot change 
their plan, are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them; and as some reach a great age, 
they become, as it were, historical monuments, and, like ourselves, they have a life growing apd passing 
away, not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers. One sees them passing through vari¬ 
ous stages , and at last, step by step, approaching death, which makes them look still more like ourselves.” 
Eleventh Pupil: Humboldt. 
‘ Summer or winter, day or night, 
The woods are an ever new delight; 
They give us peace, and they make us strong, 
Such wonderful balms to them belong; 
So, living or dying. I’ll take my ease 
Under the trees, under the trees.” 
Stoddard. 
