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Trees and forests  Are  Good  good  for  our  world

2/3/2015

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For in the true nature of things,
if we rightly consider, 
every green tree is far more glorious 
than if it were made of gold and silver. ~
~ Martin Luther King ~

When I stop to consider the amazing functions of trees,  I can only agree with the opinions of tree lovers and permaculture  practioners  around the world, that most of the world's problems could be solved in a forest garden.  How can trees repair our world?
-trees provide food for us
-trees provide us with renewable building materials
-trees provide us with renewable fuel
-trees provide us with life sustaining oxygen
-trees protect the soil from erosion
-trees provide homes and food  for a myriad of insects, birds, and animals of all kinds
- trees  incorporate carbon dioxide acting as a carbon sink to mitigate global warming
-tree transpire huge amounts of water vapour into the air important for producing clouds
-clouds produced by trees provide rain for us
-clouds made by trees reflect light away from the earth and help cool the earth preventing global warming
-clouds provide shade and cooling during summer
-trees prevent desertification by helping to produce clouds and rain,by cooling the ground during  summer to  prevent evaporation of water

Lets celebrate and use nature's gift to us

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    Manitoba is where I was born and where I have spent most of the five and one half decades of my life.  I lived on the outskirts of the town of Portage La Prairie at a time when tadpoles and frogs inhabited the ditches and ponds, when there were many  Monarch butterflies each summer along with dragon flies and grasshoppers.  Redwing blackbirds perched the cattails of the ditches.  As children we picked dandelions for  bouquets and made wishes before blowing dandelion seed heads.  We searched clover  for lucky four leaves and rolled on the grass…there was no concern of poisonous herbicides.  The grass was thick.  Wherever we dug…there were earthworms

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