To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted. (Albert Pike)

To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.

Albert Pike

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