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 (220 BC - 168 BC), Synephebi

Train up a fig¹ tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), The Lorax

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918), "Trees" (poem), 1914

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere (1622 - 1673)

I think that I shall never see

a billboard² lovely as a tree.

Perhaps, unless the billboards³ fall,

I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

There's nothing that keeps its youth,

So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC), from Plutarch, Lives

Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.

Persian Proverb

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims⁴

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 (1090 - 1153), Epistle

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), O Pioneers! (1913)

And this our life, exempt⁵ from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks⁶,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Woody Allen (1935 - )