Tree quotes

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett

"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity." - Alexander Smith

“Remember that it is not the number nor the length of its branches, but the depth and health of its roots that is the strength of a tree.” - Gustave Thibon

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

During bouts of doubt and discouragement, I fall back on better men and women who expressed themselves in words. Words that sometimes escapes me and take solace in their wisdom.

Quotes - Victor Hugo

Attributed to Victor Hugo:

“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends” 

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” 

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”

"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

Regarding his signature work, Les Misérables, he is quoted:

I don't know whether it will be read by everyone, but it is meant for everyone. It addresses England as well as Spain, Italy as well as France, Germany as well as Ireland, the republics that harbour slaves as well as empires that have serfs. Social problems go beyond frontiers. Humankind's wounds, those huge sores that litter the world, do not stop at the blue and red lines drawn on maps. Wherever men go in ignorance or despair, wherever women sell themselves for bread, wherever children lack a book to learn from or a warm hearth, Les Misérables knocks at the door and says: "open up, I am here for you".

Maybe it's time to reread Les Misérables.

Oak quotes

In the same vein as The Sapling, I found a few quotes regarding acorns and oaks:

"The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you." - Darren Hardy, "The Compound Effect"

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."- James Russell Lowell

"You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Tusculanarum Disputationum"

Something to think about when I plant acorns this fall and seedlings in the spring.

I have a supply of white oak from the boys, pin oak from the neighbor next to the homestead and red oak from up the street. My previous white oak source was taken down this past year to expand a parking lot - yes, a parking lot.

Some call it progress...