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What do we plant when we plant a tree? _x000D_ A thousand things that we daily see, _x000D_ We plant the spire that out-towers the crag, _x000D_ We plant the staff for our country's flag; _x000D_ We plant the shade from the hot sun free, _x000D_ We plant all these when we plant the tree.
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.
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.
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
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.
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.
To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.
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.
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