Arbor Day is celebrated in many nations around the world. An encouragement to plant trees, Arbor Day is generally considered to be on the last Friday of April in the United States, although some states have different dates depending on the best time to plant trees. For other countries, Arbor Day also typically occurs on a date on which the weather is conducive for planting new trees, often in spring.
A few of the dates for Arbor Day in the United States are April 24, 2009; April 30, 2010; April 29, 2011; and April 27, 2012.
The following quotes about trees are an excellent way to spread the word and show support for Arbor Day. Post them as Facebook status updates, share them on Twitter or MySpace, or e-mail them to a friend.
Quotes about Trees, Nature, and Arbor Day
- A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
- Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~ Bill Vaughan
- He plants trees to benefit another generation. ~Caecilius Statius
- You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~Saint Bernard
- He that plants trees loves others besides himself. ~English Proverb
- I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. ~Dr. Seuss
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~Henry David Thoreau
- 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
- God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. ~Martin Luther
- If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of 10 years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ~Confucius
- The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal. ~Julius Sterling Morton
- Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
- No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. ~John Muir
- Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky / We fell them down and turn them into paper / That we may record our emptiness. ~Kahlil Gibran
- Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb
- It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Happy Arbor Day! Plant a tree today.
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