Arbor Day Quotes

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
- Hal Borland

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughn

your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir

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

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.
- John Muir

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