54+ Best Tree Planting Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Planting is the activity of putting plants into the ground or into a container of soil so that they will grow. Profoundly inspirational tree planting quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.

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Famous Tree Planting Quotes

He that plants trees, loves others besides himself. Thomas Fuller

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. George Nakashima

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

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. Herman Hesse

A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. Alexander Smith

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees. Theodore Roosevelt

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

I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth. Louise Dickinson Rich

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. Richard Mabey

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. Paulo Coelho

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. Kahlil Gibran

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. John Muir

Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day. Shira Tamir

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. Napoleon Hill

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish. Munia Khan

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. Welsh proverb

The best friend on earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. Frank Lloyd Wright

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. Albert Schweitzer

Alone with myself  The trees bend to caress me  The shade hugs my heart Candy Polgar

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

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. Friedrich Nietzsche

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours. Mirabel Osler

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. Chris Maser

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. Khalil Gibran

Finland is officially the world’s happiest country. It is also 75 per cent forest. I believe these facts are related. Matt Haig

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

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. Minnie Aumonier

He who plants a tree. Plants a hope. Lucy Larcom

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn. Elizabeth Lawrence

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love Basil

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare

You can’t have the fruits without the roots. Stephen Covey

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. Susan Polis Schutz

To really feel a forest canopy one must use different senses, and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination. Joan Maloof

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free. Ray Manzarek

Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. Herman Hesse

Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. Henry Ward Beecher

When you are lost in the wilderness, a tree will always point you in the right direction. Anthony T. Hincks

If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing. Dan Groat

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

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

Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.Henry Ward Beecher

A tree falls the way it leans. Bulgarian proverb

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees. Theodore Roosevelt

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. Chinese Proverb

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