Carolus Linnaeus Quotes

Creating mechanisms for ending deforestation and promoting regeneration of the environment is one of the most effective ways of achieving net-zero emissions.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

China has led the world in new tree planting. Over the last several years China has planted 40 percent as many trees as the rest of the world put together. Since 198, all citizens of China over age 11 (and younger than 60) have been formally required at least three trees per year.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

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

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.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Could have recovered greenness?

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.