Tree Planting Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

What do we plant when we plant a tree? A thousand things that we daily see, We plant the spire that out-towers the crag, We plant the staff for our country's flag; We plant the shade from the hot sun free, We plant all these when we plant the tree.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

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

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

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.

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

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

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

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

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.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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!

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

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