It's New Deal Tuesday. The famous "Only God Can Make A Tree" poster was created by Federal Art Project artist Stanley Thomas Clough - he did this one and this one too. Clough was a printer, lithographer, illustrator, and etcher. The title of the poster is taken from Joyce Kilmer's poem "Trees," which you can read below.
I THINK that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the sweet earth's flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.