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Wangari Maathai

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and the seeds of hope.

Vandana Shiva

Agriculture for life realizes that nature provides abundance ... Our work as stewards of the land is to protect nature’s means of producing abundance.

Robin s. Sharma - Extract from “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”

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

Al Gore

The symbolism – and the substantive significance – of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.

Cree Indian Proverb

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.

Kuang Chung - Chinese Poet, 500 BC

If you are thinking a year ahead, sow a seed. If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking one hundred years ahead, educate the people.

Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

John F. Kennedy

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’

Plant a wish tree

News
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More than 1,000 trees were planted during the winter 2010 campaign in Bodhgaya ------------------------------
Around 60 fruit trees offered in various monasteries and meditation centers (Korean Temple, Buthan, Japanese, Mahabodhi Meditation Center) ------------------------------
100 Fruit trees offered different families in a village near Bodhgaya ------------------------------
50 Fruit trees offered at Dr. Maheindra's clinic (which opened a homeopathic college) ------------------------------
Planting of 108 trees on the Kalachakra ground with their protection ------------------------------
Plantation of trees on the-lands of the Mahanta of Bodhgaya(descendant of the spiritual and political authority at the time of the Maharajas) ------------------------------
Planting of fruit trees in 3 schools in villages around Bodhgaya in collaboration with Integral Rural Developpment Trust (Indian association sponsored by the Spanish) which has established schools locally and mobile clinics. The children received a little training on how to plant and protect trees then did practical work on the campus of their school and then received a tree to plant at home ------------------------------
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has blessed some of these trees and His Holiness the Karmapa has applauded the idea that next year, during the Meulam, each monk plants a tree with a wish ------------------------------