While walking along a road, a sage saw a man planting a carob tree. He asked him: "How long will it take for this tree to bear fruit?" "Seventy years," replied the man. The sage then asked: "Are you so healthy a man that you expect to live that length of time and eat its fruit?" The man answered: "I found a fruitful world, because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise I am planting for my children." (Babylonian Talmud Ta'anit 23a)
We stopped on our way north in Neot Kedumim, a Biblical Landscape Reserve in Israel, is located halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, where we all planted trees.
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