Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my …

Thomas Jefferson
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts, p.238, Rowman & Littlefield
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