from ThirtyNinth Annual Program for the Observance of Arbor Day in the Schools of Rhode Island: May,
In keeping a festival of the trees in springtime you follow a custom of past ages, observed
in many lands, and revive the ancient veneration of God's first temples.
In voicing the joy of earth's awakening, in rehearsing the utility and beauty of trees, in singing of nature's bounty, you, like men of all times, utter the memory of God's goodness and commemorate nature's provision for mankind from the beginning.
We read in ancient writ that the fruit of the tree given to men shall be for meat, that the tree of the field is man's life and that the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
More than two thousand years ago a poet of Greece sang of whispering pines, babbling brooks, flowering meads, humming bees, warbling birds on the trees and the peace of sylvan scenes.
The appeal of Spring prompted the words of Vergil, And now every field is clothed with grass, every tree with leaves, now the woods put forth their blossoms, now the year assumes its gayest at tire and landscape beauty incited him to write, The ash is the fairest tree in the woods, the pine in the garden, the poplar by the brooks, the fir on the high mountains.
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