Arbor Day Quotes

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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.

  • I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

    "Trees" l. 11 (1913)
  • I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

    "Trees" l. 1 (1913)
  • I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

    Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
  • If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

    Hal Borland (2014). “Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country”, p.77, Open Road Media
  • The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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

  • God cannot save them from fools.

  • The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more thoroughly commendable than the effort to get our people practically to show their appreciation of the beauty and usefulness of trees.

  • 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 (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow
  • The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

    Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr
  • 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 (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
  • Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

    "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.
  • Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

  • The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a love and reverence for Nature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute, "to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs" was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love Nature and reverence Nature's God, and to see the uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and at-tractive.

  • Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

    "Trees" l. 11 (1913)
  • You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

  • 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...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”
  • Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

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

    "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.
  • To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

  • He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  • No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow
  • The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4
  • 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.

    "Life Without Principle" (1863)
  • Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

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

    Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
  • If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.

  • 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, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books
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