Urban Forestry Quotes

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I walk the streets I do not see afforestation written with conviction on the harried faces of my fellow citizens.

I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but a part of daily life.

In light of the documented benefits of urban trees, we must also ensure that we increase green spaces in underserved communities throughout the city that lack adequate parks and other green spaces.

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.