D. Elton Trueblood

D. Elton Trueblood (December 12, 1900 – December 20, 1994) was a noted 20th-century American Quaker author and theologian, former chaplain both to Harvard and Stanford universities.

The Life We Prize (1951)

 * A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
 * p. 58