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
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
.