Whether it is through low energy housing, planting trees, teaching children to respect the environment, boycotting incandescent lightbulbs, or wrapping gifts in old newspapers, we have the opportunity to lead by example.

Planting the Seeds of Africa s Growth

Indeed, forest related activities, such as tree planting and management, can form a useful part of post conflict reconstruction programmes, by encouraging communities to work together for a common future.

The planting of cotton began in Central Asia.

Since 1994, in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, there has been an ongoing school programme on the subject of peace that promotes the inculcation of the values of peace and non violence among our young people.

In order to reverse this trend, it will therefore be necessary to increase forest management and reafforestation and to control the most important factors contributing to forest loss (excessive tree felling, unsuitable planting practices and forest fires among others).

But he answered, Every plant which my heavenly Father didn't plant will be uprooted.

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

UNEP emphasizes that logging has an enormous environmental impact, destroying the habitats of many endangered species.

The trees are green.

These trees are the tallest and one of the most massive tree species on Earth.

Trees epitomize stasis.

We love trees.

The solution is not to abolish markets, but to re moralize wants.

Don't cut down those trees.

Trees are planted along the street.

Many trees fell down.

The trees will soon be bare.

I see a man between the trees.

Sami planted trees.

Older trees, while growing much slower, still do so faster than other trees.

He began to tell the people this parable. A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

Then began he to speak to the people this parable A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

That danger can be averted by cultivating values that promote tolerance and respect for pluralism.

Richard Preston on the giant trees

What shapes are the trees?

Wood doesn't grow on trees.

A treeplanting campaign in Indonesia.

Orchards thick with trees ,

And dense gardens ,

and dense tree 'd gardens ,

And enclosed gardens luxuriant .

And gardens , dense with many trees ,

And luscious gardens .

and dense orchards ,

And garden closes of thick foliage

and densely planted gardens ,

the densely tree 'd gardens ,

And gardens of dense shrubbery

thickly planted gardens ,

And thick gardens ,

and burgeoning enclosed gardens

And enclosed Gardens , dense with lofty trees ,

H. Illegal logging

This fear is manifesting itself in an incipient effort to expand education to include the cultivation of feeling and imagination.