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  • He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

    Love   Nature   Science  
    "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 2248, 1732.
  • 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.

  • He who plants kindness gathers love.

  • Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
    "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".
  • If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.266, Best Books on
  • Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

    Book   Oxygen   Two  
    A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
  • 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!

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

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

    Dream   Giving   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.

    Girl   Summer   Memories  
    "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.
  • They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

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

    Mother   Song   Twilight  
    Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”
  • A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

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

    Kindness   Men   Garden  
  • 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.

    Nature   Healing   Tree  
    Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.133, Counterpoint Press
  • 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.

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

    "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.
  • 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.

    Nature   Talking   Water  
    Wangari Maathai's speech at Goldman Awards in San Francisco, April 24, 2006.
  • 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.

    Men   Tree   Vigor  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics
  • A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

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

    George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics
  • He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

    Cutting   Caring   Hands  
  • That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

    Tree   Want   Way  
    "Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai: A Global Icon Of Conservation" by Korva Coleman, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.
  • Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

    Garden   Tree   Wagers  
    Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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