Quotes About Sustainability

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

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.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Trees cause pollution.

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.