Arbor Day Quotes, Sayings for Arbor Day

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Arbor Day has fostered love of country.
- Birdsley Grant Northrop

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No shade tree? Blame not the sun but yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
- John Muir

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Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.
- Kim Stafford

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We plant trees not for ourselves, but for future generations.
- Caecilius

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You can gauge a country’s wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.
- Richard St. Barbe Baker

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

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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir

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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

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Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
- Julius Sterling Morton

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If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.
- W. B. Yeats

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You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
- Hal Borland

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I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior.
- Darryl Cherney

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Other holidays repose on the past. Arbor Day proposes the future.
- J. Sterling Morton

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Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
- Malay Proverb

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Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within.
- Chinese Proverb

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In creating, the only hard thing’s to begin; a grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak.
- James Russell Lowell

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