Plants And Trees Quotes:

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.

- D. Elton Trueblood

topic: Men, Justice, Tree, Old Trees, Plants And Life

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

- James G. Watt

source: "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

topic: Tree, Environment, Newspapers, Inspirational Tree, Old Trees

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

- Og Mandino

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Life Changing, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Motivational Images

Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.

- Dogen

topic: Life, Wall, Essence, Four Elements, Plants And Trees

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

topic: Fall, Flower, Power, Inspirational Flower, Plant A Tree

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

topic: Nature, Sea, Tree, Arbor Day, Mother Nature

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.

- John Muir

topic: Running, Fun, Long, Hunted, Plants And Trees

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

- Saint Basil

topic: Love, Inspirational, Gratitude, Kindness And Compassion, Inspirational Nurse

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

- Mirabel Osler

topic: Garden, Tree, Branches, Old Trees, Plants And Trees

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

- Gloria Vanderbilt

topic: Stars, Animal, Moon, Plants And Trees

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

- Stephen Girard

topic: Tree, Today, Tomorrow, Arbor Day, Plants And Trees

He who plants kindness gathers love.

- Saint Basil

topic: Kindness, Plant, Kindness And Compassion, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics

topic: Men, Tree, Vigor, Perfect Man, Plant A Tree

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

- John Wright

topic: Giving, Tree, Police, Plants And Trees, Tree Planting

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

- Backseat Goodbye

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, October And Fall, Plant A Tree

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

- Penelope Keith

topic: Nature, Grandchildren, Tree, Loathe, Plants And Trees

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Nature, Healing, Tree, Woods And Forests, Fruit Trees

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Time, Science, Maturity, Great French, Losing Time

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.258

topic: Men, Tree, Doe, Plant A Tree, Plants And Trees

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Humorous, Air, Tree, Plants And Trees, Air Pollution

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Flower, Yoga, Yield, Inspirational Yoga, Mind Body

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

- Carl Linnaeus

topic: Garden, Tree, Plant, Dead Trees, Planting A Garden

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Love, Nature, Science, Old Trees, Love And Nature

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Adventure, Garden, Wildness, National Parks

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.616, e-artnow

topic: Running, Tree, Saplings, Destroying The Earth, Plants And Trees

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

- Leo Buscaglia

source: Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books

topic: Garden, Thinking, Eggplant, Plants And Trees

I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing. I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau’s neat hand.

- Maria V. Snyder

topic: Book, Eye, Hands, Plants And Trees

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

source: "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

topic: Graduation, Tree, Shade, Meaning Life, Arbor Day

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Garden, Needs, Poet, Shovels, Plant A Tree

The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Agency, Air, Tree, Plants And Trees, Epa

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

- Lucy Larcom

topic: Garden, Tree, Plant, Inspirational Tree, Arbor Day

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Rain, Flower, Inspirational Rain, Plant A Tree

God cannot save them from fools.

- John Muir

topic: Tree, Avalanches, Fool, Arbor Day, World Environment

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Makin Money, Market Risk

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

- Martin Luther

topic: Faith, Hope, Wisdom, Social Good, Hope And Faith

In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

- Dogen

topic: Wall, Heart, Practice, Cedars, Plants And Trees

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

- Woody Allen

topic: Self, Tree, Defense, Drinking And Driving, Tree Of Life

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

- Ian Hamilton Finlay

topic: Tree, Events, Stones, Sheriffs, Plants And Trees

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

- Kobayashi Issa

topic: Death, Children, Spring, Light Of The World, Plants And Trees

Forests are the lungs of our land......

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Land, Forests, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental, Inspiring Nature

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

topic: Summer, Spiritual, Tree, Plants And Trees

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

- Morihei Ueshiba

topic: Sports, Wise, Teacher, Plants And Trees, Wise People

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

- Morihei Ueshiba

topic: Teacher, Rivers, Tree, Plants And Trees, Rivers And Mountains