Quotes on Arbor Day

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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

Trees 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!

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

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.

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?

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

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.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.