George Orwell Quotes

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

One generation plants the trees. Another gets the shade.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn't leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn't leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.

The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.