Tree Planting Quotes:

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

- Russell Page

topic: Dream, Giving, Tree, Tree Planting

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

- Lucy Larcom

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

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

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

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

- A. Whitney Brown

source: A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

topic: Book, Oxygen, Two, Plant A Tree, Tree Planting

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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

- Wangari Maathai

source: Wangari Maathai's speech at Goldman Awards in San Francisco, April 24, 2006.

topic: Nature, Talking, Water, Plant A Tree, Tree Planting

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

- Thomas Fuller

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

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

- Henry Abbey

source: Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”

topic: Sea, Tree, Ships, Spires, Masts

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

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Year One, Tree Planting

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

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

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Garden, Tree, Wagers, Planters, Tree Planting

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

- Wangari Maathai

source: "Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai: A Global Icon Of Conservation" by Korva Coleman, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Flames, Indigenous, 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

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

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

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

- Carl Linnaeus

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

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

What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh. For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard - The treble of heaven's harmony. These things he plants who plants a tree.

- Henry Cuyler Bunner

source: Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”

topic: Mother, Song, Twilight, Plant A Tree, Tree Planting

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

- Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

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

God cannot save them from fools.

- John Muir

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

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

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

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

I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

- Natalie Merchant

source: "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

topic: Girl, Summer, Memories, Being A Girl, Girl Scout

Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.

- Bernd Heinrich

topic: Cutting, Caring, Hands, Raspberries, Tree Planting