Showing posts with label tree health and rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tree health and rights. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2016

The Trees' Bill of Roots

WHEREAS TREES:
1. are rooted in intricate connection with Mother Earth

2. are made of sensitive, feeling, communicating living cells

3. respond continually to stimuli such as light, heat, cold, weather, predation, toxicity, nourishment

4. communicate with each other and a vast array of dependent plant, animal and microbial species and symbionts

5. keep hillsides and shorelines stable

6. resurrect as new life as they break down in soil

7. dress the planet with oxygenating, climate-stabilizing swathes of life and beauty

 WE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THE INHERENT RIGHT OF TREES TO:
1. remain rooted in their Mother the Earth

2. pull nutrients and water from the underground world

3. reach branches and leaves to the sky

4. expand their range as climate dictates

5. host a natural array of companion species

6. photosynthesize

7. exchange gases with the atmosphere (thus maintaining the atmosphere)

8. be allotted space even in urban areas

9. flourish un-logged, unpoisoned and unimpeded across the globe.

Trees' ability to turn light into matter keeps us, our food and our world alive. Our fate is rooted in their welfare: their roots are our roots.  What is the standing of trees in your region? What are you doing to defend them?
STAND TALL WITH TREES
 
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