Tree Cultivation Quotes

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

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

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.

Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.'