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Question
What social and ecological benefits of planting a tree does the poet refer to?
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Solution
The person who plants a tree not only ensures cool shade and tender rain but he also sows the seeds and buds for lush forests for the future generations to benefit from. He sows the seeds of development of the nation and the world.
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