What if the planet can be Saved
A story about trees
Please pay attention I have blogged about this before. Sorry, it is important.
Many writers seem to be of the opinion that the planet is dying. What if it wasn’t? What if the planet was struggling to survive, and it was us that was dying?
Would that change your perspective a little?
I ask this because I have, three times now, seen trees growing in three different places in Great Britain.
What is so special and different about this?
Everything
Please pay attention.
Thank you.
Now that I have your attention, I want to explain something to you.
The trees that I have seen were in three different places within the space of two weeks. Why is that significant?
It is significant because over here it is ‘no mow in May month’ as I write this in 2022, and because of ‘no mow in May’ we now have a great deal of trees that have been planted by nature. I am a gardener and a writer. Please get your binary memory around that for a minute and don’t imagine me as one or the other, but both, because I see things. I look down at the ground every day. And, being a writer, my head is in the clouds thinking about things.
When I say a trees, what I mean is thousands. Yes thousands.
In two of the places; one Wales, and the other I decided not to make public after all, but there were thousands of trees. The trees were different varieties. Whoop. WHOOP.
Just now, I pulled over for a break because I am not sleeping and couldn’t sleep till 2 am yesterday and I had a meeting this morning, anyway, in one square foot of soil were no less than 3 newly seeded saplings of around 12 inches in height.
Let me say that again. Because of ‘no mow in May’ we now have a quantity of trees that have been planted by nature.
If you are sceptical, I challenge you to take a walk. Take a walk anywhere with no intention but to enjoy the weather, and the plants, the birdsong and the scenery in your own neighbourhood — now relax.
Do you notice anything? Can you see the trees. Are they around a foot in height or maybe they are a few inches in height because some people cheated and mowed anyway?
But, hey wait a minute. That is great, isn’t it?
Only if we don’t mow them down.
Look, I get it, we cannot possibly keep them all. But what if we kept a quarter of them, or a third. That would be something — right?
Please, if you are reading this, put nature first. Don’t think, why should I share this, why should I clap for this, why should I do anything? What is in it for me?
Because, in case you haven’t read Hemingway or John Donne, everything is in it for you. The future of your grandchildren is at stake, maybe even your children. Do something now. Save all those trees that nature planted in May and share this post with someone who can do something about it. Do something now before it is too late for humanity.
‘Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee’
John Donne