Julius Sterling Morton's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Scientist
Nation: American
Biography of Julius Sterling Morton
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Tags: Future, Past, WhileEach generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
Tags: Earth, Generation, TakesThe cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
Tags: Beautiful, Good, WishI write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
Tags: Hope, Others, WriteI'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
Tags: Book, Hope, PrettyIn retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
Tags: Life, Seems, TimePeople might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Tags: Business, Hard, WritingThere's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
Tags: Book, Feeling, UntilSome say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
Tags: Success, Successful, Writing