“One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade”
Chinese Proverbs
“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Where'er you walk, cool glades shall fan the glade / Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: / Where'er you tread, the blusing flow'rs shall rise, / And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.”
Alexander Pope
“Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees.”
William Johnson Cory
“Large trees give more shade than fruit”
Proverb
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
Nelson Henderson
“Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .”
William Barnes
