Quotes on the Value of Trees
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Our Own Quotes
Tree Related Planning Quotes
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To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. --Theodore Roosevelt
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No shade tree? Blame not the sun but yourself.
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And the earth brought forth vegetation... and God saw that it was good. --Genesis 1:12
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a tree, one need only own a shovel. --Aldo Leopold
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He that plants trees loves others beside himself. -- Thomas Fuller
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Trees cut pollution, they cool the air, they prevent erosion, they muffle sound, and they produce oxygen.
Then, after all that, they look good. --Dr. Richard Leakey -
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees. --Bill Vaughn
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone else planted a tree a long time ago. – Warren Buffett
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The smallest patch of green to arrest the monotony of asphalt and concrete is as important to the value of real estate as streets and sewers. --James Felt, NYC Planning Commission, 1960
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson
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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
Our Own Thought-Provoking Quotes and Soundbites
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From 1960 to 2050, America has planned 90-years of time... in 20-year increments.
Such short-sited "Long Range Plans" are responsible for many problems. -- Urban Innovators -
Columbus sailed beyond the horizon. If we plan beyond a “horizon year,” perhaps we’ll discover a new, more sustainable world. -- Urban Innovators
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In your work, imagine how people 10, 30, 100, and even 1000 years from now will deal with what you do.
Don’t leave them with unsustainable or inflexible systems. -- Urban Innovators -
Buildings in Rome have risen and fallen many times, but its streets have hardly changed.
Choose your streets wisely! -- Urban Innovators -
Plan the projects of the next 20-years to be flexible and livable for 100 years! -- Urban Innovators
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Insanity? Building 70-year bridges, 10-years after studied, to serve 10-more years of a 20-year
traffic forecast. -- Urban Innovators -
One of the biggest problems in American suburbs is that short, local streets are too wide, and longer arterials are too few and too narrow for anything but cars. -- Urban Innovators