10 ways tree planting makes you happy Posted on 16 July 2012 Tags:Zambia During my week at Greenpop’s Trees for Zambia reforestation and conservation education project in Livingstone I smiled solidly for seven days. Here’s why I think tree-planters are such a happy bunch. 1. The more trees you plant, the less guilty you feel about driving, eating, washing, drinking, shopping, writing, printing, travelling and breathing. 2. A pickaxe is the ultimate stress reliever. 3. When you plant trees there will always be kids around. Kids laugh over 400 times a day. Happiness is infectious. 4. Planting trees is an effective, spandex-free workout. 5. There is something unbelievably cool about starting something that will be around for your kids (and grandkids) to enjoy. 6. Environmentalists are, on average, sexier than any other activist group. 7. Food tastes best after planting a tree. 8. Tree planting brings good people together. 9. Saplings look up to you. 10. Trees never say no to a hug. Related Posts Buildings, roads and homes flood as severe weather hits KZN 18 May 2023 Good news from the brink of extinction in Volcanoes National Park 11 May 2023 Photojournalist Graeme Green went to Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park to document the recently opened campus... read more Curiosity skilled the cat 5 May 2023 A member of The Explorer’s Club and founder of Curiosity Company, Francois Malherbe uses tracking... read more PREV ARTICLE NEXT ARTICLE
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