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And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree
Sep 10, 2025
Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.
If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.
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.
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.
Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.
This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.
And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run on our record but we cannot rest on it. We will win if we continue to take the initiative and if we carry the message of hope and action throughout the country. Alexander Smith once said, 'A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.' Let us continue to plant, and our children shall reap the harvest. That is our destiny as Democrats.
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.
There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.
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.
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.
The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree.
What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.
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.
A dog came to my door, so I gave him a bone, the dog took the bone into the back yard and buried it. I'm going to go plant a tree there, with bones on it, then the dog will come back and say, "Shoot! It worked! I must distribute these bones equally for I have a green paw!"
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?
When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
God cannot save them from fools.
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.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!
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.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'
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!
In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.