Arbor Day: Its History, Observation, Spirit and Significance, Volume 3Robert Haven Schauffler |
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... better name is suggested . " The name has served us , it is true , from the days when we first awoke to a dim realization of our criminal waste of trees and its perils . Almost four decades ago , when the infant holiday was christened ...
... better name is suggested . " The name has served us , it is true , from the days when we first awoke to a dim realization of our criminal waste of trees and its perils . Almost four decades ago , when the infant holiday was christened ...
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... better name is suggested , and its significance by general understanding will soon be as plain as Decoration Day . The holiday has been happily associated , in this State especially , with the public schools . This is most fitting ...
... better name is suggested , and its significance by general understanding will soon be as plain as Decoration Day . The holiday has been happily associated , in this State especially , with the public schools . This is most fitting ...
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... better friends to us than ever we have been to them . If , as the noble horse passes us , tortured with the overdraw check and the close blinders and nagged with the goad , it is impossible not to pity him that he has been delivered ...
... better friends to us than ever we have been to them . If , as the noble horse passes us , tortured with the overdraw check and the close blinders and nagged with the goad , it is impossible not to pity him that he has been delivered ...
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... better one , because it calls on all , and especially on the impres- sible learners in the schools to join in the duty which we owe to the earth and to all mankind , of doing what each of us can to preserve the ARBOR DAY 19.
... better one , because it calls on all , and especially on the impres- sible learners in the schools to join in the duty which we owe to the earth and to all mankind , of doing what each of us can to preserve the ARBOR DAY 19.
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... better at school and home , they will later be found active in all efforts for public improvement . An interesting programme of song and recitation and the making of some spot more beautiful by tree , shrub , or flower are alike means ...
... better at school and home , they will later be found active in all efforts for public improvement . An interesting programme of song and recitation and the making of some spot more beautiful by tree , shrub , or flower are alike means ...
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American elm apple apple-tree April Arbor Day beauty beech birds bloom blossoms blue boughs branches breath bright buds child color dark deep delight earth eyes feet fields flowers forest fruit glory grass grove grow growth heart heaven HENRY CUYLER BUNNER HENRY VAN DYKE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hills Houghton interest JOHN RUSKIN land leaf leaves live look maple Mifflin mountains nature never odors OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES permission pine plants a tree poplar pruning Pupil rain ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER roots school garden school grounds school-house season seeds seems shade shadow shrubs SIDNEY LANIER sing snow soil song soul spring stand summer sunshine sweet thee things thou thought timber tion transplanted tree-planting trunk vines violet waste wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WILSON FLAGG wind winter witch-hazel wonder woodland woods youth