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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

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.

When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!