Arbor Day Quotes

• Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Holiday, Past, Arbors

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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Garden, Tree

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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, Future

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• The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Beautiful, Men, Garden

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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• Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Science, Tree, Humanity

  "Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway". Book by John Zinkin (p. 183), November 8, 2011.

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• The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tree, Forests, Wonder

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• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Love, Inspirational, Nature

  "Trees" l. 1 (1913)

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• Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Greatness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

  John Muir

  Life, Science, Doors

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• To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Tree, World, Way

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• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Summer, Sweet, Nature

  "Trees" l. 11 (1913)

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

  Stephen Girard

  Tree, Making A Difference, Environmental

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• When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.

  Jodi Thomas

  Heartbroken, Air, Smell

  Jodi Thomas (2010). “Welcome to Harmony”, p.109, Penguin

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• Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Country, Real, Tree

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  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

  Nature, Sea, Tree

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

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• Poems are made by fools like me,
  But only God can make a tree

  Joyce Kilmer

  Nature, Tree, Fool

  "Trees" l. 11 (1913)

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• I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Winter, Eight

  'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

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• God cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Tree, Avalanches, Fool

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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