Latin Quotes Worth Knowing: Caecilius Statius on "Trees"

Cicero, writing in his treatise Cato Maior De Senectute (1.24 [Concerning Old Age]), quotes a playwright whose works are only known to us through scattered quotes such as what he provides us here:

Caecilius Statius:
Serit arbores, quae alteri saeclo prosint.
He plants trees, which benefit another generation.

The idea is, a tree will not benefit you yourself, but you enjoy trees today because someone in the past generously planted them for another generation. And so, let us plant trees to pay it forward.

It's somewhat similar to a quote, often attributed to Martin Luther, which Luther himself never actually said (since we have his writings and this quote isn't in them nor is this attributed to him by any contemporary so as to make the attribution credible):

If I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would still plan an apple tree today.

At any rate, here is a grammatical analysis of this charming Latin quote:

Latin	English	Parsing	Grammar Points
serit	He plants	3rd pers. sing. pres. act. verb	serō, serere, sēvī, satus
arbores	trees	acc. pl. fem. noun	arbor, arboris
quae	which	nom. pl. fem. rel. pronoun	qui, quae, quod
alteri	another	dat. sing. neut. adj.	alter, altera, alterum
saeclo	generation	dat. sing. neut. noun	syncopated form of saeculum, saeculi
prosint	benefit	3rd pers. pl. pres. act. subj. verb	prōsum, prōdesse, prōfuī; subjunctive in indirect question construction; takes dative objects.