John Muir Quotes

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.

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

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.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

One test of leaders is how they make sure that their ideas and programs will live on after they’re gone.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

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

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

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

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.