"Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees...We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."
— Forests

January 1, 1970

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J. Sterling Morton in: John Zinkin Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway, John Wiley & Sons, 8 November 2011, p. 183.