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| | Mission Statement |
 | | The mission of the Penn State Arboretum is to promote the quality of human life by seeking, through scholarship, research, and education, collaborative solutions to growing demands on the natural landscape and its resources. |
 | | As a place of beauty in a rapidly expanding metropolitan area, an educational facility, and a microcosm of the human-nature continuum in settled landscapes, the Penn State arboretum shall strive to become an interdisciplinary "institute for land health" of state, regional, and perhaps national significance. |
 | | Although arboreta everywhere are attempting to address missions relevant to contemporary issues, older arboreta are constrained by long-lived collections assembled for such traditional purposes as the phylogenetic display of specimen plants. |
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