Afforestation Quotes

Help save our environment.

Every man ought to plant a tree.

Trust the horticulturalist: California's genius may be green, but it's underlying beauty is brown.

AFFORESTATION  (AFFORESTA'TION)   n.s.[from afforest.] The charter de Foresta was to reform the encroachments made in the time of Richard I. and Henry II. who had made new afforestations, and much extended the rigour of the forest laws.Hales’sCommon Law of England.

Jewish National Fund, the Zionist quasi-governmental organization founded in 1901 to purchase and reclaim land for Jewish settlement, partly through a vast afforestation project that marked out the borders, blocked the spread of Arab towns, and redeemed and greened what was seen as a desolate land.

Human beings go on living as if they own the whole world. There are two misconceptions that humans hold, which constitute the major portion of all the wrongs that they do. First is that the Earth belongs to humans and the second is that humans belong to Earth.

Cut down no trees, for they are home to the birds you adore.

back then you wanted a tree with a nice straight trunk that grew fast and was easy to manage. Then, in the late sixties, it began to occur to people that perhaps there was a bit more to afforestation than just planting a ton of trees. By the early 1980s someone had invented the word biodiversity and rural landowners, who up until then had cheerfully been industrializing the landscape, were told to start putting it back the way they’d found it—in fact, better than the way they’d found it, if you don’t mind.