Julius Sterling Morton quotes
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“Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.”
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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.”
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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 MortonSource : "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.”
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Source : Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”
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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.
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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