All World
Gayatri Pariwar

An Appeal: Let’s Nurture Mother Nature
Trees give flowers for fragrance, fruits for food, leaves, roots and bark for the medicines and wood for furniture; and also provide shade and resting place to the travelers and nests to the birds. Scriptures, saints, great men, and thinkers have sung the paeans of praise of trees.

On the auspicious festival of Guru Purnima, let us plant at least five trees and resolve to nurture them till they become self-supporting.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. - Native American Quote

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

Ten wells equal a stepwell, ten stepwells equal a tank, ten tanks equal a son, and ten sons equal a tree.- Matsya Purana

Tree is a poem that the earth writes across the sky. Humanity cuts them down for paper so we may record our emptiness. - Kahlil Gibran

Take a quiet walk with Mother Nature. It will nurture your mind, body, and soul. - Anonymous

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover.... That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.” - Dr. Robert Jastrow
(Astronomer, physicist and a founder director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies.)

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

“We seek to uncover behind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the “spontaneity” of the movement, references which in most cases explain nothing and teach nobody.Revolutions take place according to certain laws. This does not mean that the masses in action are aware of the laws of revolution, but it does mean that the changes in mass consciousness are not accidental, but are subject to an objective necessity which is capable of theoretic explanation, and thus makes
both prophecy and leadership possible.” - Leon Trotsky

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
- St. Bernard

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gyaan Shakti Samaaroodah, Tatwa Maalaa Vibhooshitaha |
Bhukti Mukti Pradaaneyna, Tasmai Sri Gurave Namaha ||
Meaning: The one who is an ocean of knowledge, who is always in Yoga (in unison With God) who is adorned by the knowledge of the God principle, the one who can liberate us from this mundane existence, I salute such a Guru.

To be poor and be without trees is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy. - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. - Richard Mabey

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese proverb

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. - Anonymous

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of a garden. - Thomas Jefferson

“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.” - Victor Hugo

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within. - Chinese Proverb

“Whether we accept it or not, this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our planet. It will come about in one of two ways: Either we decide to manage our own numbers, to avoid a collision of every line on civilization's graph - or nature will do it for us, in the form of famines, thirst, climate chaos, crashing ecosystems, opportunistic disease, and wars over dwindling resources that finally cut us down to size.” - Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

A tree does not move unless there is wind. - Afghan Proverb

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. - Greek Proverb

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
- Martin Luther

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. - Mahatma Gandhi

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. - Theodore Roosevelt

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.- Robert H. Schuller

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple. - Martin O'Malley

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground. - Ann Brashares

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. - Billy Corgan

No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. - David Thewlis

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell

Na aksharam mantra rahitam, na moolam na-aushadhim|
Ayogyam purusham nasti, yojakah tatra durlabhah||
Meaning:
There is no letter which can’t be used as a chant.
There is no root that can’t be used as medicine.
(Similarly) There is no person (on the earth) is who is completely useless.
(Actually)The good delegators (who recognize the proper skillsets) are rare..!!

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity. - Susan Fenimore Cooper

The groves were God's first temples. - William Cullen Bryan

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. - Eric Hoffer

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. - Kahlil Gibran

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.- James Russell Lowell

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland

He who plants a tree, plants a hope. - Lucy Larcom


Noble is the birth of trees who give life to all beings. They are like gentlemen who never turn anybody away disappointed. - Srimad Bhagvat Purana

A man does not plant a tree for himself, he plants it for posterity. - Alexander Smith

My heart is glad, my heart is high, with sudden ecstasy; I have given back, before I die, some thanks for every lovely tree, that dead men grew for me. - V. H. Friedlaender

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. - Minnie Aumonier

Those who want better future should plant good trees around tanks, and raise them like sons, as the trees are considered like sons in our religion. - Mahabharat

Those who plant trees in deserted and difficult to reach place give salvation to their previous and future generations. - Shiva Purana

Trees are like gentlemen who help others. They stand in the sun but give shade to others. Their fruits are also for the use of others. - Vikram Charitam

Aapadaam kathitah panthaa indriyaanaamasamyamah |
Tajjayah sampadaam maargo yeneshtam tena gamyataam ||
Meaning: Not controlling the senses is the road to adversity and sorrow. Conquering the senses is the road to prosperity and happiness. Choose either of the two which you like; that is your decision.

Just one tree with flowers and fruits makes the forest and environment fragrant and heavenly, like a good son to a family.
- Chanakyaniti Darpan

How is it possible that the most intellectual creature to ever walk the planet Earth is destroying its only home? - Jane Goodall

Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumines his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. - Alfred Billings Street