What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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.