Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good.
~Sara Ebenreck
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
~Greek proverb
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way.
~William Blake
One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.
~Chinese Proverbs
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
~American Proverb
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore
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.
~Confucius
If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.
~Stephen Girard
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
~Willa Sibert Cather
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~Bill Vaughn
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
~Jacques Deval
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
~Henry Ward Beecher
Even trees do not die without a groan.
~Henry David Thoreau
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~Nelson Henderson
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
~Unknown Author
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
~James Russell Lowell
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
~Winston Churchill
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
~Minnie Aumonier
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
~Henry David Thoreau
Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.
~Albert Einstein