A Man Who Plants A Tree Quotes

#1. A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

#2. kingdom of heaven is like a a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.

Anonymous

#3. What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Jean Genet

#4. How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

John Muir

#7. There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him to sit in it's shade.

Sandra Dallas