Quotes About Community

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.

I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.

New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.

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

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

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

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

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.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

My fruit grows on other people's trees.

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

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!