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He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Les Brown

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

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

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.
- John Muir

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake

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.
- Elton Trueblood (1900-1994)

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art".
- Paul Cezanne

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
- William Blake, 1799

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, 1483-1546

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.
- Henry Van Dyke 1852-1933

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
- Joyce Kilmer 1886-1918

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
- Hal Borland

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

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- Willa Cather1873-1947

Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo da Vinci