Plant A Tree Quotes

• 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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• When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

  Wangari Maathai

  Tree, Climate, Plant

  Wangari Maathai (2004). “The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience”, p.12, Lantern Books

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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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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Power

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

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

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Tree, Doe

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

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• Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tree, Earth, Forests

  Anton Chekhov's letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 18, 1888.

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• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

  Willa Cather

  Nature, Tree, Way

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 8 (1913)

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• 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.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Garden, Tree

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".

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• 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.

  Wangari Maathai

  Nature, Talking, Water

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

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• 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!

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Science, Maturity

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• 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.

  Henry Abbey

  Country, Tree, Sun

  Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Time, Tree

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.266, Best Books on

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

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

  John Muir

  Happiness, Nature, Travel

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Healing, Tree

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

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

  Backseat Goodbye

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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• 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.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Heart, Autumn

  "Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.

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• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Courage, Bravery, Tree

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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  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. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Patience

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Tree, Serving Others

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.238, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Faith, Tree, Almonds

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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