Julius Sterling Morton Quotes

Julius Sterling Morton — American Scientist born on August 22, 1832, died on April 27, 1902

Julius Sterling Morton was a Nebraska newspaper editor who served as President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat, taking the conservative position on political, economic and social issues, and opposing agrarianism. In 1897 he started a weekly magazine entitled The Conservative... (wikipedia)

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.