Great people Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it.

— Robert Ballard

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

— Jennifer Granholm

Nothing can grow under big trees.

— Constantin Brancusi

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

— Karen Joy Fowler

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

— Constantin Brancusi

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— James Kerr

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

— George Herbert

Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,

— Felix Dennis