Logo
Any fool can destroy trees.... God has cared for these trees, save

Any fool can destroy trees…. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools… – John Muir, “The American Forests,” August 1897

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Arbor Day
category

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

Category:
Arbor Day

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

Category:
Arbor Day

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. – Hal Borland

Category:
Arbor Day

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

Category:
Arbor Day

Random Quotes

She just wore enough for modesty; no more! – Robert Buchanan

Category:
Humility

Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They dont mean anything. – Oliver Hudson

Category:
dad

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. – Harry S. Truman

Category:
Change

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Intelligence