What is special about a tree?
A tree has the ability to provide an essential of life for all living things on our planet – oxygen, and the power to remove harmful gases like carbon dioxide making the air we breathe healthier. Trees don’t just stand there quietly. They exchange gases as part of their normal metabolism. Their woody stems “inhale” oxygen and “exhale” carbon dioxide, and act as pipelines for transporting methane gas from oxygen-poor soils into the atmosphere.
How do trees give us life?
Through photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air and store it in its wood. Trees and plants will store this carbon dioxide throughout their lives, helping slow the gas’s buildup in our atmosphere that has been rapidly warming our planet. Trees and shrubs improve soil and water conservation, store carbon, moderate local climate by providing shade, regulate temperature extremes, increase wildlife habitat and improve the land’s capacity to adapt to climate change. These are all benefits forests and shrubs offer the environment and in turn, us.
How are trees good for us?
Trees play a critical role in creating healthier, safer, and more connected communities. They clean our air, filter our water, and even slow storm surge and flooding in our cities. Trees also provide shade and cool our cities by up to 10 degrees, which can help prevent heat-related deaths in urban areas. A tree has the ability to provide an essential of life for all living things on our planet – oxygen, and the power to remove harmful gases like carbon dioxide making the air we breathe healthier.The Two Trees One is Knowledge One is Life The Tree of Knowledge has as its fruit, good and evil. The Tree of Life has as its fruit, life. It has always been God’s intention for us to eat of life and nothing else. Although the Tree of knowledge offers both good as well as evil, neither were ours to eat.