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James Richardson's avatar

Cannot remember exact quote, or from who, but someone once defined "statesman" as a person committed to planting trees knowing he'd never see the shade.

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Carolyn Phipps's avatar

A line from one of my favorite poems: "Invest in the millennium; plant sequoias." (Wendell Berry, "Mad Farmer's Liberation Front Manifesto"

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