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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. – Chinese Proverb

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. – Chinese Proverb

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverb

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903

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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. – Henry David Thoreau

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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. – John Muir

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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. – Denise Levertov

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