Danny Hillis Quotes

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.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

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

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.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

A nation has to look ahead.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.

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.

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.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

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