Julius Sterling Morton
Julius Sterling Morton
Julius Sterling Mortonwas 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. Among his most notable achievements was the founding of Arbor Day in 1872. In 1897 he started a weekly magazine entitled The Conservative...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 August 1832
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.