Edwidge Danticat Quotes

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

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

My mother was a cleaner and my father a builder. I watched both of them make big sacrifices for my brother and I to study. This is where I get my work ethic from. This is also the source of my generosity and willingness to help.

Growing up, my parents made a lot of sacrifices for my brother and I to go to private school and to attend some of the football camps. They got through some hard times, but it was for me, and that's what I've learned from them. I'm very grateful for that.

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

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.

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

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.