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  • He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

    Love   Nature   Science  
    "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 2248, 1732.
  • Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

    Wall   Practice   Tree  
  • Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

    Humorous   Air   Tree  
  • 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.

  • He who plants kindness gathers love.

  • 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.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
    "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".
  • I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing. I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau’s neat hand.

    Book   Eye   Hands  
  • Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  • If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • 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.

    Life   Running   Fun  
    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.720, Library of America
  • In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.266, Best Books on
  • The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

    Summer   Spiritual   Tree  
  • To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

    Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books
  • Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

    Flower   Garden   Tree  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249
  • 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.

    Running   Fun   Long  
    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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!

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

    Nature   Fall   Autumn  
  • Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

    Teacher   Rivers   Tree  
  • They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

    "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.
  • A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

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

    Kindness   Men   Garden  
  • 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.

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

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

    "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.
  • He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  • 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.

    Men   Tree   Vigor  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics
  • A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

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

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