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.
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.
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.
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 out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.
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.
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 love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.
He who plants kindness gathers love.
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.
Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.
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.
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
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.
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.
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!
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
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.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
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