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Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts" (1922-2000)

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Trees are vital part of our natural environment and an immense contributor to human life. Most often, we plant tree to provide shade and beautify our landscape.

We must see tree planting as a civic responsibility and be devoted to its nurturing and management.

To plant trees is an act of faith.

one of the things we can do is continue to ensure that trees are allowed to survive - rather than by being chopped down by a council which is in thrall to its own officers

Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded and that no matter how high we go it is from our roots that we draw sustenance. It is a reminder to all of us who have had success that we cannot forget where we came from. It signifies that no matter how powerful we become in government or how many awards we receive, our power and strength and our ability to reach our goals depend on the people, those whose work remain unseen, who are the soil out of which we grow, the shoulders on which we stand.

Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 (1940–2011)

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A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe.... What a terrible future!

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can’t think about them. I live with trees. There are creatures under our feet, creatures that live over our heads, but trees live quite convincingly in the same filament of air we inhabit, and in addition, they extend impressively in both directions, up and down, shearing rock and fanning air, doing their real business just out of reach.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. We also secure the future for our children.

Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded...

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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