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I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

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.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.