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“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.”

“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“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.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“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.”

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Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”

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Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake

“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”

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Author:Hal Borland

“You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”

“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”

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Author:Thomas Fuller

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.”

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Author:Aldo Leopold

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

Source: The Portable William Blake