Century Quote by George Perkins Marsh

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

I think if conservatives spent more time planting trees the world would be a better place.

— Jeremy Limn

“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 is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

— Washington Irving

We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises…

— William Shenstone

I see how these beautiful forests are now open to destruction because of technology. Companies are able to get into more and more remote…

— Julia Butterfly Hill

If the world wants a climate deal and new development agenda that's good for the economy, for the poor, and for businesses, the path…

— Paul Polman

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

— Russell Page

Trees are key to not only protecting our environment, but our way of life.

— Nancy Mace

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees,…

— Henry David Thoreau