Discussion Board: The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees (Time 30:08 minutes) is a very short animated film that portrays how one person can make a difference. The character is fictitious, but his life’s work of transforming a barren landscape has been compared to none other than our mythical Johnny Appleseed and in real life to Wangai Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bhausaheb Thorat, and Marthinus Daneel, all inspiring people who have been planting millions of trees in Africa or India. This film was chosen for your viewing to illustrate how your websites and your future advocacy efforts can be compared to the metaphor of planting seeds or planting trees. You may not realize in the moment the potential transformative power of your work, but in time, your activism may indeed make profound and long lasting changes in the lives of others.