For the Love of Trees

"Trees purify the air; they also purify the mind . . . if you want to save your world, you must save the trees."

The Trees of Endor

Tree Quotes

"They are beautiful in their peace, they are wise in their silence. They will stand until after we are dust. They teach us, and we tend them."

Galeainip Alteiem Macdunelmor

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

Rabindranath Tagore

"He that plants trees loves others beside himself."

Dr. Thomas Fuller

"He who plants a tree plants hope."

Lucy Larcom

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."

Anonymous

Essential Tree Sites

Circle of Life: Julia Butterfly Hill founded this organization after she spent more than 2 years living in a tree to protest the clear cutting of forests. Packed with useful practical information and specific tips on how you can make a difference.
Grow a Forest: Visit this site to find out how much CO2 you generate each year, and what you can do to offset your impact on the planet.
Elmcare.com: Everything you wanted to know about elm trees including care tips and cool elm tree facts. For instance, did you know that a mature elm tree provides the cooling equivalent of five air conditioners!
National Arbor Day Foundation Site: One of the premier tree organizations, the National Arbor Day Foundation provides countless ways to show your love of trees. Plant trees in your neighborhood, help protect the rainforest, or help bring trees back to the areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The picture on the home page is worth visiting this site alone.
American Forests: Find information here on the National Register of Big Trees - amazing!
Forest Ethics: An organization dedicated to exposing corporations who destroy endangered forests.
Muir Woods: Paradise on earth. I had the great fortune to visit Muir Woods last November and it was an experience I'll never forget. When you walk among these gentle giants, you can't help but feel the presence of God all around you.

More Tree Quotes

"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, The Letters, 1799

"The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man."

J. Sterling Morton

"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."

Henry David Thoreau

"No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself."

Chinese proverb

"A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree."

Deng Ming-Dao

"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