#trees

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

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. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#i #kingston #life #live #lots

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#being #believe #granted #i #living

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

#effort #endless #heaven #listening #speak

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them. ↗

— Kent McCord

#around #fresh #fresh air #i #interested

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#am #around #blue #charged #cooler

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ↗

— John Muir

#coming #day #directions #every #far

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ↗

— John Muir

#cannot #cared #disease #drought #floods

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. ↗

— Beth Orton

#expression #first #hearing #i #idea