If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
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.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
He who plants a garden plants happiness.
When one of us plants alone, the seed might not sprout. But when many of us plant together, the roots grow deep, the tree stands strong.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
The creation of plant life and the creation of art are one and the same.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.