“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory.
They speak his praises without flattery, and they are
blessings to children yet unborn.
- Lord Orrery, 1749
A man does not plant a tree for himself, he plants it for posterity.
- Alexander Smith
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
- Lucy Larcom, Plant a Tree
Someone's sitting in the shade today because
someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
- Malay proverb
Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects.
- Proverb from Guinea
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's where the fruit is.
- Anonymous
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
- Spanish proverb
A tree falls the way it leans.
- Bulgarian Proverb
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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