Quote#Nature
What does he plant who plants a tree?
Quote byHenry Cuyler Bunner · 1855–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Heart of the Tree. An Arbor-Day Song", stanza 1, in The Poems of H. C. Bunner, new edition (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899), p. 249..
English (original)
What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high; He plants a home to heaven anigh For song and mother-croon of bird In hushed and happy twilight heard— The treble of heaven's harmony— These things he plants who plants a tree.
— Henry Cuyler Bunner
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