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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

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We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.

Qwatsinas

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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.

D. Elton Trueblood

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

Bill Vaughan

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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton

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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval

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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere

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He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Saint Bernard

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He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!

Dr. Jose P. Rizal

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Viewed as a whole, a forest radiates beauty, serenity and safety. Viewed from within, misplaced focus reaps the fabricated chaos of trees.

Richard Guerry

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