If you go outside and look around, could you point out anything that brings you/gives you life? There’s been a picture floating around the Internet that said, “Imagine if trees gave off Wi-Fi signals, we would be planting so many trees and we’d probably save the planet too. Too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe.” It’s sad how true that statement is, we value access to the Internet more than we value the air we breathe every day. Trees are the one thing that help us survive and people view them as trivial objects more and more each day, underestimating the fact that our destruction of them could lead to a destruction of us.
The leaves of trees can come in all different shapes and sizes. They form in bunches and give a sense of hair to the tree, adding a way to differentiate one tree from another. With the leaves, trees give us beauty. There’s not a prettier sight than mid-October, when all the tree’s leaves have changed colors and everywhere you turn there are different types of reds, oranges, yellows and more. The foliage is just one of the many reasons why trees are important, they give us natural beauty. They could be described as a painting in nature just without using brushes, paint or canvases.
Tree’s trunks come in all different sizes, some thicker than others, giving protection in a way, to us humans and to animals. Since most trunks are big, hunters usually hide in between them when they’re looking for potential game. They wear camouflage to blend in with the trees, usually in patterns of different types of greens, browns and light mustard yellows. Speaking of game, trees also are the home to different kinds of wildlife, such as birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and more. Even insects use trees, such as honeybees, grubs, and ants. You can see the remnants of these animals in the trees bark, like holes from woodpeckers that were searching for its next