Quotes

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

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

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

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
-Henry David Thoreau

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.
-Cree Indian Proverb

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

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

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

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
-John Muir

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
-Alice Walker

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

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

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

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

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.
-Astrid Alauda

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum?
-Frank N. Ikard

The best part of happiness is the pines.
-The Quote Garden

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

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

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

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

When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?
-Frank N. Ikard

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
-John Muir

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship.
-Theodore Roosevelt