Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

And just as an experiment, I started planting a few acres each year on run-down land.

We in the next few years, when peace comes, will be able to devote more thought to making our country more useful—every acre of it.

We have to think not just of an annual crop, not just something that we can eat the next year.

It doesn't amount to very much, this cost of planting trees, and yet the hillsides of West Virginia of our grandparents' day were much more ...