Arbor Day Quotes

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good.
- Sara Ebenreck

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.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
- Denise Levertov

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- Chinese Proverb