Quote#Nature
Woodman, spare that tree!
Quote byGeorge Pope Morris · 1802–1864
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Woodman, spare that Tree! (1830), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now.
— George Pope Morris
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