Anticipation Quote by Danny Hillis

The Best Time To Plant An Oak Tree Was 20 Years Ago or Today..

— Ritu Ghatourey

“A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said…

— Chuang Tzu

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree, there and…

— Terry Nardin

“The oak was, of course, a great stealer of the surrounding pasture—its only value to provide shade for the livestock—but it was a magnificent…

— Graham Swift

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

— George Perkins Marsh

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it…

— Joseph Beuys

Gee, do they still make wooden Christmas trees? -Linus

— Charlie Brown Christmas

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

— George Henry Lewes

The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar…

— Andrew S. Draper

“Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires…

— Henry T. Blackaby