20 best quotes about Arbor's Day

Arbor Day (from the Latin arbor, meaning tree) is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care fortrees. Today, many countries observe such a holiday. Though usaully observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. ~Stephan Girard

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. ~Sara Ebenreck

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~Hal Borland

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. ~John Muir

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

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

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. ~Martin Luther

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. ~Denise Levertov

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

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? ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

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. ~Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can destroy trees.... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools... ~John Muir, “The American Forests,” August 1897

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

It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. 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. They 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! ~John Muir, July 1890

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. ~Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message