Ronald Reagan

“ In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth. ”

“ Arbor Day remains a time for planting and caring for trees in our cities, towns, and countryside, and it should also remind us to learn more about trees and forests and how to protect them at home and guard against desertification and destruction abroad.
Our celebration of Arbor Day should always be tinged with the spirit that the 19th-century poet Henry Cuyler Bunher captured so well in “The Heart of the Tree”:
What does he plant who plants a tree? ”