Quotes on Plants And Trees

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

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

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

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

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.