More Trees, A Trillion Trees, And Fast, Is It Our Only Hope

News reports from everywhere echo the call to plant more trees

But if you want to save the world by planting trees you first have to gather the seeds.

We are at the start of a massive and ever-growing movement of people trying to do something about climate change. Millions of people have marched for the climate crisis in recent months. If we might harness all of this positive energy and get behind this unifying goal, restoring Earth’s ecosystems would have the immense power to restore our environment and repair our climate.

This is the power of restoration. Almost every government around the globe has already pledged to restore forest systems – Australia and New Zealand, for example, each plan to plant 1 billion trees, Ethiopia is far ahead of them.

In a new analysis seen recently in the journal Science, scientists report that restoring forests could cut atmospheric carbon by 25 percent.

“We all knew restoring forests could play a part in tackling climate change, but we had no scientific understanding of what impact this could make,” scientist Tom Crowther, who led the new research, said in a press release.

“Our study shows clearly that forest restoration is the best climate change solution available today and it provides hard evidence to justify the investment. If we act now, this could cut carbon dioxide in the atmosphere … to levels last seen almost a century ago.”

Here are just a few examples of news reports on the pleas for trees from around the world.

Click to read Myanmar Tree Plea

Ethiopia Trees — Click to read Ethiopia’s Tree Plea

What the trees and the world needs is you.

Join us to help plant a trillion trees as fast as we can gather the seeds. Seed gathering has already begun but it really gets going this fall in the forests of Eastern Europe.

Trees & Seas

As vital as it is to plant a billion hectares of new forest remember this is a blue planet. There is five times the area of ocean that supports ocean plant life (its ocean pastures) than there is land for forests, old and new. As we make haste to restore the trees we must also make haste to restore the seas.

Together in the restoration of the trees and seas, we can and will save this world for our children and grandchildren.

Join Us.

On The Nature Of Trees

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

― Martin Luther

“Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.”

― Munia Khan

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

― John Muir

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

― William Shakespeare

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

― Chad Sugg

“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

― Herman Hesse

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.”

― Wendell Berry

“To really feel a forest canopy one must use different senses, and often the most useful one is the sense of imagination.”

― Joan Maloof

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

― Warren Buffett

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

― Chris Maser

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

― Chinese proverb

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.”

― Jodi Thomas

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

― Kahlil Gebran

“On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.”

― W.S. Merwin

“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.”

― Santosh Kalwar

“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”

― Paulo Coelho

“Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”

― Karen Joy Fowler

“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let’s give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.”

― Bob Ross

“Trees do not preach learning and precepts. They preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”

― Herman Hesse

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

― Nelson Henderson

“Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.”

― Victor Hugo

“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.”

― Wangari Maathai

“I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.”

― Louise Dickinson Rich

“This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.”

― Carl Sagan

“There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.”

― Peter Wohlleben

World Makes Urgent Call For More Trees

More Trees, A Trillion Trees, And Fast, Is It Our Only Hope

News reports from everywhere echo the call to plant more trees

But if you want to save the world by planting trees you first have to gather the seeds.

What the trees and the world needs is you.

Trees & Seas

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More Trees, A Trillion Trees, And Fast, Is It Our Only Hope

News reports from everywhere echo the call to plant more trees

But if you want to save the world by planting trees you first have to gather the seeds.

What the trees and the world needs is you.

Trees & Seas

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