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If you seek my monument, look around you,” newspaper editor J. Sterling Morton said a atree planting ceremony in 1894.
Morton meant that the tree planted lasts far longer than the person who plants it. Morton wrote many editorials advocating the planting of timber and fruit trees. Later, as president of the American Forestry Association, he proposed a day each year for the planting of trees.
The first statewide Arbor Day, which was celebrated in Nebraska, resulted in the planting of more than a million trees in
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