30 quotes emphasizing the importance of tree plantation:
Here is a set of thirty quotes that highlight the importance of the plantation of trees
1. Wangari Maathai:
"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope."
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt:
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
3. Martin O’Malley:
I plant trees for my great-grandchildren. Why do I care about the future? Because I plan to live there."
4. Jane Goodall
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
5. Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
6. Alexander Smith:
"A tree is our most intimate contact with nature."
7. Julius Sterling Morton:
"Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."
8. Arbor Day Foundation:
"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
9. Edward Everett Hale:
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
10. Robert Louis Stevenson:
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
11. Warren Buffett :
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
12. John Muir:
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
13. Lucy Larcom:
"He who plants a tree plants a hope."
14. Rabindranath Tagore:
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way."
15. Henry David Thoreau:
"He who plants trees loves others beside himself."
16. Nelson Henderson:
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
17. **Kahlil Gibran**: "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
18. Lord Buddha:
"The trees are God's great alphabet: with them He writes in shining green across the world His thoughts serene."
19. John Evelyn:
"In planting of trees, the value of life seems to be endlessly enhanced."
20. Chinese Proverb: "
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
21. Oliver Wendell Holmes: "
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
22. Joan Maloof:
"I cannot go to the wilderness to feel connected to all that is. I cannot take a flight to another continent to know the beauty of a tropical rainforest. But I can plant a tree."
23. David Brower: "
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
24. George Nakashima:
"The beauty of the tree is its continuing growth and the longevity of its life."
25. Richard Powers:
"The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth."
26. Walt Whitman:
"The tree is living poetry, its leaves, the poetry of the earth."
27. Doug Larson:
"A tree is a tree—how many more do you need to look at?"
28. Patrick Geddes:
"By leaves we live."
29. Henry Cuyler Bunner:
"In the garden, my soul is sunshine, my heart is flowers, and my thoughts are butterflies."
30. Greek Proverb:
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
These quotes highlight the many reasons tree planting is vital for our environment, well-being, and future generations.
