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“It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees” | Wangari Maathai

“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

“Hope is the tree that holds the world” | Pliny, the Elder

“No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden” | Hugh Johnson

“The greatest gift of the garden, is the restoration of the five senses” | Hanna Rion

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug” | Helen Keller

“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, Countryman: A Summer of Belief

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature ” | Gerard De Narval

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree” | Joyce Kilmer, “Trees,” 1914 |

Kerio Valley

Rimoi Wildlife Sanctuary

“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours” | Mirabel Osler

“That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.” | Egyptian tomb inscription, circa 1400 BC

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world” | John Muir

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

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky” | Kahlil Gibran

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come” | Chinese proverb

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better” | Albert Einstein

“Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment” | Rene Dubos

“I have grown taller from walking with the trees…” | Karle Wilson Baker

“Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other’s company. Only a few love to be alone” | Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939

“We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect” | Aldo Leopold

“It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees” | Wangari Maathai

“Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn.” | Lord Orrery, 1749

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope” | Lucy Larcom, Plant a Tree

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