The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.