Are trees really that important?
I hope you’re not serious. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that trees are the most important plants on earth. Trees, as everyone else said, give off oxygen and use CO2. But that is only part of their importance. We aren’t the only species that it is important. It’s not just all about what we breathe. Everything in nature is interconnected. Everything in the universe is interconnected for that matter. We cannot exist seperate from the ecosytems of earth. Trees are an extremely important part of most of the ecosystems on land. Trees hold soil together and limit erosion. Trees hold moisture that benefits all the living things in the forest or jungle. That includes moisture in the soil and in the trees themselves, both in them and on them. They snag moisture form fog and rain. The Redwoods of California probably couldn’t survive without the fog of the coast. And so neither could all the species that depend on the forest for habitat. Trees provide habitat for numerous species of other anima
