Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade.
Interpretation
The actions we take today should benefit future generations.
This quote emphasizes the importance of making sacrifices and investments today for the benefit of future generations, similar to how our ancestors worked to create a better life for us. It highlights the idea of stewardship for the environment and the necessity of planting trees, which symbolize growth, sustainability, and the legacy we leave behind for our children and grandchildren.
In practice
During a community meeting about environmental initiatives, one could say: 'Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, we must plant trees today for our future.'
If we did not have a sense of who we were, how we got here, why we want to achieve something - which, on the face of it, on the logic of it, is probably not worth trying - and prove that logic wrong, then you wouldn't succeed; then you would just evaporate.
You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.
When people say they don't want a nanny state, they are, in fact, in a conflicted state of mind. On the one hand, they want to do whatever they want and not be stopped. On the other hand, if something goes wrong, they want to be rescued.
You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.
No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.
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