Plant a tree seed, save a planet


It's the smallest thing but possibly the grandest gesture you can do today...


Plant a tree seed


It can be a pip from an apple, an acorn from an oak or a winged nut from a maple - you can even go crazy and buy a whole packet of tree seeds from your local garden centre if you want.



It doesn't really matter what tree seed you plant, so long as you plant it. And the best seeds - those with the greatest chance of growing large and living long - are seeds from trees that grow naturally where you live.


But where do you plant it?


On the side of the side of the street, in your garden, in the park, by a lay-by, on the side of a field or next to a wood... anywhere where there's space and light*. Then all you have to do is

bend down,

push your finger into the soil about to about 2cm (1 inch) depth - or use a pen - and pop that seed in.


Then stand on the hole to close it over and tuck it in.
Go crazy and buy a packet of tree seeds from your local garden centre if you wish.


Or go round your neighbourhood at the right time of year (usually autumn for most of us), and collect seeds from the many different trees that grow naturally in your area, and stock up for the year of planet-saving seed-planting ahead of you...


That's it.


That's all you have to do.

You've taken a step, an action, that helps our only planet - the planet we depend on and cling to - breathe a little easier (quite literally).


It may be a simple act.

It may have been easy to carry out. But given half a chance that seed will grow and grow and mean more and more as your life goes on.


Your one single action gains significance as it grows, as you grow.

How easy was that? How good do you feel?

And if it does make you feel good, go do it again!

And again.

Whenever you're feeling blue or a little down, or even just for the sake of it, go do a bit of planet saving by popping a seed in a hole the next time you're out and about.


It's not the only seed you just planted

You just planted one in your own mind.
The idea, the thought, perhaps the hope that you can do something to save this planet.
That you can help maintain the majesty of life as we know it.

Doing small things can achieve big things.

The very seed you planted in the soil is proof of that.

A living example of how from small things even greater things emerge and grow.

Can you save a planet? Yes you can.