Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade…

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that…

— Jennifer Granholm

“Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental…

— Jim Robbins

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

— Narendra Modi

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new…

— Clive Anderson

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

— Kevin de Leon

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

— Anonymous

We are not insisting on planting trees just because of global warming. Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam insist on the necessity of trees. Especially in…

— Vivek

When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to…

— Wangari Maathai

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

— Dia Mirza

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees whose shade you never expect to sit under.”

— Gina Holmes

“society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.”

— James Kerr

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

— William C. Bryant

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

— Anonymous