“Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.” CitiesTreeStreetsBenefitsParks Author:Gavin Newsom
“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.” PeopleChildrenCountryHelpingFacesUsedWaterActingTreeCitizensBenefitsPlantWoodsForestsPreservesHopelessFactoriesHelplessReservoirsGood Citizen Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?” HandsDesireBrainGrowingTreeBenefitsFruitWorkersRecognitionEarnestMonumentUsefulnessBlooming Author:Washington Irving
“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.” MenYearsDoeBookHandsTreeYouthThousandBenefitsUnderstoodHundredMercyPreparedFruitBe PreparedAssuredExalted Author:Al-Ghazali
“On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.” ShouldYearsCertainResponsibilityTreeMonthsBenefitsFellowsCeremonyYear OneTree Planting Author:Dalai Lama
“People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.” PeopleWayRememberArtistTreeBenefitsParks Author:Yoko Ono
“Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.” IfsKnowsGivingStatesEnoughTreeFeetBenefitsCreatorSpreadIgnorantThanksHeightBranchesOwners Book:The Confessions Source: The Confessions