American Chestnut Trees

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or trees:

“The American people abhor a vacuum.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

“It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaws them,—to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)