Joanne Harris Quotes

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.

The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-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.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.