“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
– Martin Luther [German friar, priest and professor of theology who was a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation]

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”
– D. Elton Trueblood [Former chaplain to both Harvard and Stanford Universities]

“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious task of wise distribution.”
– Andrew Carnegie [American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century]