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“This is an idea I have had since I was a primary school student. Seeing teachers encouraging us to plant trees inspired me to feel like I owe something like this to the community and I think time is now to make it happen .”
Bwiza (born 1999) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been a member of the scouts’ family for quite some time and, as we are encouraged to leave the world look better than we found it and I believe their relentless commitment to mobilize the community to plant trees can make a big impact.”
Bwiza (born 1999) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/841/entertainment/singer-bwiza-in-environment-conservation-campaign(The New Times Rwanda, Tuesday, September 06, 2022)
“This is an idea I have had since I was a primary school student. Seeing teachers encouraging us to plant trees inspired me to feel like I owe something like this to the community and I think time is now to make it happen,” she said .”
Bwiza (born 1999) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Singer Bwiza in environment conservation campaign. The New Times Rwanda (September 26,2026)
“I believe their relentless commitment to mobilize the community to plant trees can make a big impact.”
Bwiza (born 1999) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Singer Bwiza in environment conservation campaign. The New Times Rwanda (September 26,2026)
“All the from my open fires is shared among the plants that particularly like , s and es particularly, and I give some to the , and in the winter the apple trees get their share. When I grew potatoes and es they, too, were lucky.”
Margery Fish (1892–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd like to get lost on some old back road, Find a shade tree and a honey hole. And talk to my grandpa again. And I see God in everything: The trees and pain and nights in the spring. So why do I still long for a home?”
Zach Bryan (born 1996) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Burn, Burn, Burn" (2022)
“To you, I'm just a man; to me, you're all I am. Where the hell am I supposed to go? I poisoned myself again, somethin' in the orange Tells mе you're never comin' homе. If you leave today, I'll just stare at the way. The orange touches all things around. The grass, trees, and dew, how I just hate you, Please turn those headlights around.”
Zach Bryan (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you start talking about climate change, your average viewer will only think about planting trees, but there is so much more. Let's learn new models, apply technology, and reimagine what's possible.”
Joseph Nguthiru first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TV47 Kenya interview, 2024
“On bitter nights in winter the moon called her and she came, when the breath was vapor, and the trees that circled her dancing-room were black, bare skeletons, and the frost was cruel.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of my fondest memories was in Austria. I was called out to the balcony of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. The full moon shone over the trees in the vast garden and a white carriage appeared. Ballerinas stepped out of the carriage and performed a magnificent ballet in the garden”
Penelope Coelen (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have lost a lot of species, trees and it is important to rehabilitate our natural environment, to protect it against environmental degradation and to restore its natural state”
Francis Nhema (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is also Makosho trees, which are found in Lecheng thus distinguishing the village from other localities within the country.”
Tumiso Rakgare first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Government committed to promotion of culture, DailyNews (27 May 2005)
“When trees build wood, is incorporated. It takes a long time to decompose ... It’s a smaller scale in . Some of the material they make can be almost woody. The is tough to decompose. The cell walls stay in the soil, microscopically. ... It adds up to a lot ... twice as much carbon in the soil as in the , and much of that is in [fungi].”
Kathleen Treseder wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“she walked around and looked into pots - they don't cook buttermilk? and then she got drunk she was selling four linden trees with a cross as they said she said - I didn't sell it - I didn't sell it and beat with an iron”
Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spring is Christ, Raising martyred plants from their shrouds. Their mouths open in gratitude, wanting to be kissed. The glow of the rose and the tulip means a lamp is inside. A leaf trembles. I tremble in the wind-beauty like silk from Turkestan. The censer fans into flame. This wind is the Holy Spirit. The trees are Mary.”
Coleman Barks (1937–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The surface of the state generally is broken and diversified, the mountain slopes being densely covered with forest growths, principally of spruce and other evergreen trees. The scenery is everywhere attractive, and in many districts very beautiful.”
Thomas W. Moloney (1862–1917) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vermont (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
“Every year, communities are displaced, lives are lost, and it’s a cycle we’ve been stuck in for far too long. I’ve always believed prevention is better than cure. While we hope for and continue to push for our government to do better with regard to our flood control systems, we are also taking action into our own hands by planting trees and bamboo.”
Donnalyn Bartolome (born 1994) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donnalyn Bartolome highlights PH’s flood control issue in award speech in Europe, Inquirer.Net (13 September 2025).
“Caller rain frae abune reeshles amang the epple-trees: the leaves are soughan wi the breeze, and sleep faas drappan doun.”
Douglas Young (classicist) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frae the Aiolic o Psappho". A Braird o Thristles (1947)
“Young raccoons usually spend the winter in a communal nest with their mother and sometimes other raccoons, as many as twenty-three, in a state of semihibernation, once they have built up a layer of fat to sustain themselves during winter food shortages. Those dens are most often in hollow trees but can also be under tree roots, in rocky crevices, or in remodeled , , fox or skunk dens.”
Marcia Bonta (born 1940) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (248 pages; 1st edition 2005)
“[...] Amidst these woods and oak trees, nestled among the rolling hills of the Marche region, lies a true marvel – not only of this region, but of our entire nation: a city rich in history, art and culture. A city that has left its mark over the centuries: Urbino.”
Alberto Angela (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whirling his sword, like a scythe mowing down the green grass, corpses lay heaped round him, like the trees of a dense forest uptorn by the wind.”
Goffredo Malaterra (1100–1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 2, ch. 30, in Script. Rer. Italicarum, vol. 5, p. 567. Paraphrased in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (1882), p. 197. "In Sicily, Roger, fighting fifty thousand Saracens at the head of onl…
“I just came to Germany because I got a scholarship... to attend training as a development activist in carpentry... Imagine, there is no wood in . ...There's not a lot of trees nor wood and carpentry is very primitive ...but ...coming to Germany was a chance to escape.., to move... to escape my environment to another environment where everything seemed to be available and possible!”
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look at what I'm doing... with my work. Here we're trying to create a water basin. ...People just dig and we construct... This is in the site of the BIT and the high school. ...With this you can store water ...to grow trees, the same like we're building, step by step, classes, and you see these tree[s] are creating shadow for my people.”
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The place had a kind of mystery, as if, in some long distant past, it had been inhabited by men who knew how to rejoice in rivers, trees, and sky. (chapter 7)”
Simone Schwarz-Bart (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Mexican cosmology the sky fell down as a result of profound rainy spell. Two gods changed themselves into trees with which it was then supported. Rain also caused the collapse of the sky in a story told by the of the northwestern United States. , saw that the old sky which was made of and badly cracked in places was about to fall, so he and Thunder constructed a new sky.”
Maud Worcester Makemson (1891–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he third rule is , so just as a hill needs rocks or trees... to slow... the pace of the water.., the wall needs... on a bigger level.., speed breakers... on the , and... on the micro level you have... , and... if... you have stones... so that the façade is... self-healing. They are extremely strong and there is no in it except in the foundation.”
Anna Heringer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the same token, if you find yourself in a difficult situation and you want to escape, you can recite incantations that will save you. When you burn roots and leaves of trees to cure yourself, you propitiate with them and you recite special incantations for that”
Bayo Adebowale (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wearing green uniforms they blended with the trees and when women collected firewood, the soldiers would jump out and rape them, laughing like it was a game,”
Rebecca Lolosoli (born 1962) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: International Day of the Girl: Rebecca Lolosoli, thank you for being an iconic feminist" (September 17, 2020)
“We are like trees which carry one another's fruit. Thankfully when poets die, they fall on their backs with their bellies pointed to the stars.”
Tchicaya U Tam'si (1931–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would add, however, that at present the cultivation of cotton, the raising of rubber trees, of coffee, kola nuts, etc., the calling forth the riches of the soil, sanitation and the promotion of handicrafts form part of the pressing essentials of religion.”
Mojola Agbebi (1860–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[[w:Debal|Debal[[ is remarkable for the richness of its grain cultivation, but it is not over-abundant in large trees or the date tree. It is famous for the manufacture of swords. The inhabitants generally maintain themselves by their commerce.”
Ibn Hawqal (943–978) said by 978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have three siblings of which I am the youngest. I grew up shy and it affected my interaction with people. But on the other hand, I was active; I played with boys in the neighbourhood climbing trees and walls which earned me a few scars. I spent most of my weekends with cousins at my grandmother’s house, which was a 30-minute walk from home.”
Simmy (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So LSM stays in. No ifs, buts, maybes or anything else. When I see the security people making sane arguments and agreeing on something, that will change. Quite frankly, I expect hell to freeze over before that happens, and pigs will be nesting in trees. But hey, I can hope.”
Linus Torvalds (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would continue to plant my apple trees.”
Martin Luther (disputed) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Earliest record is in a circular letter from Hessian Church minister Karl Lotz on 5 October 1944 and modified from a quote by Johanan ben Zakai according to
“Critics are a kind of wild flies, that breed In wild fig trees, and when they’re grown up feed Upon the raw fruit of the nobler kind, And by their nibbling on the outer rind, Open the pores, and make way for the sun To ripen it sooner than he would have done.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lives of trees lie only in the barks, And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sap which courses through the trees carries the memory of the red man.”
Chief Seattle (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
Amelia Earhart (misattributed) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Originally Frederick William Faber, sermon "On Kindness in General", found in Spiritual Conferences, a collection of his oratory, ca. 1860
“The great innovators have always been fearless.... I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I have been alone in an office with Louis B. Mayer.”
Michael Powell (director) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky.”
Charlemagne (misattributed) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Widely credited to Charlemagne on the Web, though no source has been found earlier than the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. .
“The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven.”
Samuel Rogers (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Serialists fall into difﬁculties if they fail to distinguish the wood from the trees and consequently try to assimilate masses of sparsely related irrelevant information”
Gordon Pask (1928–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.”
John Frederick Boyes (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sometime we see a cloud that 's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The stately homes of England,-- How beautiful they stand, Amid their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land!”
Felicia D. Hemans (1794–1835) said by 1835 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source