He began planting more than 500,000 trees over the years with the goal of enriching the territory and nearby community, where relationships between man, mountain, culture, and nature could be preserved for the benefit of generations to come. By placing his mill at the heart of a much wider community, he promoted and supported the creation of the Panoramica Zegna Road, now public and known as 232 road, and later Oasi Zegna, through painstaking reforestation work, creating a sustainable interdependence.