Cool facts about trees

  1. An ancient cell needed energy, and it figured out how to convert sunlight into energy. Small structures called chlorophylls are involved in this conversion process.

  2. Some trees use energy to produce fruits. The participants of the first reaction are Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight, and Water channeled up from the ground. The Products of this reaction are Oxygen and Sugars. The Sugars are then used to make fruits. The Oxygen is breathed in by us, and we need Oxygen to produce our own energy. That’s where the term fresh air comes from.

  3. A single tree can reduce temperatures with the shade it provides. Multiple trees in a forest can cool the entire forest floor.

  4. Trees generally live in groups. Trees communicate using their own language to help each other survive.  We shouldn’t isolate trees, we should figure out how we can work with groups of them to create more biodiverse cities.

  5. Biodiversity increases the amount of animals, which can help us further understand the rules operating behind life at every level: atomic, molecular, macromolecular, tissue, organ, organ systems, individual, population, and ecosystem. We can use this increasing knowledge of possible configurations to create happiness through medicine and foods. 

  6. Trees begin as saplings and grow to unknown heights, according to their genes and the environmental conditions.

  7. Trees function as homes for animals. The skyscraper trees of the Amazon rainforest form a giant city of life. Life needs diversity to survive because life forms create solutions for other life forms in evolutionary food chain. Living beings work together to keep each other alive. Frogs protect spider eggs, spinach keeps us strong, trees create our oxygen, medicines grow in the bushes, birds clean alligator’s teeth, and tiny fish feed on coral reef plants. Trees and forests are sources are sources of food and medicine: they are primarily sources of life.

Mattias Acosta

Mattias Acosta is a writer, systems designer, cybersecurity solutions advisor, nature enthusiast, wellness proponent, and a fantasy book reader.

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