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It's a realization we all have at one point. We all come to different conclusions about it.

For me, I heard someone say something to the effect of "Plant trees you will never rest in the shade of" and like, that hit a weak spot for me. Right through the armor. I changed a lot of my life to go out and restore ecosystems, restore healthy forests, and plant trees.

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That reminded me of another saying: it would have been best to have planted a tree ten years ago, but the next best time is now.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/12/29/plant-tree/ (the page also mentions the one you did)

From an ecological perspective, I think it is quite extraordinary that pine trees grow so quickly. Just planting conifers exclusively is not going to reverse all the environmental instability that we have caused, but it's a stopgap method of reducing carbon in the atmosphere that we could implement almost immediately.

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