Education Quote by Plato

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

— Plato

“What are men compared to rocks and trees?”

— Jane Austen

“Schoolteachers teach what they and others know. Forest teachers - bear, wolf, lynx, beaver, bird, every flower and tree - teach us how to…

— Frederic M. Perrin

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

— Bill Mollison

“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.”

— Daniel J. Rice

“Find your teachers in the voices of the forest”

— Rising Appalachia

“Every teacher was once a student, so respect each student because it is always possible for an ordinary seed to become a respected gigantic…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

— Susan Wiggs

“We were men once, though we've become trees”

— Dante Alighieri

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

— Winifred Holtby

How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— James Kerr