He sows the seed of trees that they may be a profit to another age.

Synephebi ('Comrades in Youth'), fragment 2; as quoted by Cicero, De Senectute, 7, 24 | Cf. Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, I, 14, 31 | Eugene S. McCartney, "Arbores Quae Alteri Saeculo Prosint", The Classical Journal, vol. 41, no. 2 (1945), pp. 75–78