He that plants trees loves others besides himself

A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who’s wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It’s not as though I’m expecting a reply. I’m fully aware that Polly is a houseplant.

What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants the friend of sun and sky;
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh.
For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard –
The treble of heaven’s harmony.
These things he plants who plants a tree.

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.

The best day to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best day is today.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.

The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.