Quotes About Legacy

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Trees are your best antiques

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

A brotherhood of venerable trees.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.