Julius Sterling Morton quotes

“Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.”
-- Julius Sterling Morton

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“Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.”
-- Julius Sterling Morton

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“Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.”
-- Julius Sterling Morton

Source : "Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway". Book by John Zinkin (p. 183), November 8, 2011.

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“The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.”
-- Julius Sterling Morton

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“A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.”

“I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.”

“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”

“No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.”

“It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!”

“When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”

“Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.”