 | 1898 - 68 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1910 - 268 páginas
...one mill per acre. Reforestation is chiefly a matter of benefit to future generations. Irving said, " He who plants an oak looks forward to future ages...posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this." The same may be said of the planting of trees upon our mountain slopes. The trees are raised from seed... | |
 | 1903 - 108 páginas
...beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There IB a grandeur of thought connected with this part of...posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this." — Irving. "And O, and O. The daisies blow, And the primrose is awake ; And the violets white, Sit... | |
 | Frank William Rane - 1904 - 24 páginas
...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...heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy of liberal, and free born, and aspiring men. He who plants an oak, looks forward to Juture ages and plants for posterity.... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1906 - 38 páginas
...planted by the bands of pure and joyous children, as a memorial to his achievements ? — BJ LOSSINO. He who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. — WASHINGTON IRVING. In "Les Misgrables " there is delineated an ideal lover of nature and of humanity,... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1913 - 400 páginas
...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...posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. A FAMOUS COUPLET BY ALEXANDER POPE A FEW OLD PROVERBS ANONYMOUS "!F the Oak is out before the Ash,... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 400 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 400 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1908 - 130 páginas
...for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants an oak looks forward to future ages,...posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. — Washington Irving. THIRD PUPIL. For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every... | |
 | 1912 - 462 páginas
...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...worthy of liberal, and free-born, and aspiring men. WASHINGTON IRVING. [no] Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth,... | |
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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. 
