Essay On Trees

Trees

   Trees are Often called "man's best friend". They are a precious gift given by Mother Nature to man, in the hope that man will look after them and live in harmony with them.Trees are of immense use to man.

   Besides fruits, trees provide important raw materials for our industries. Industries provide employment to people. The wood for furniture, housing, railway carriages and ships comes from trees. Wood is also used for fuel and for making charcoal which is used as fuel. From trees we get wood-pulp to make paper and artificial yarns. Trees also give us products such as spices, rubber, turpentine, eucalyptus oil and gum. We also get honey and many valuable things for medicine from forests. We get so many things from forests that forests are rightly known as "Green Gold". Trees provide shade to tired travelers and animals and shelter to innumerable birds and insects.

     Trees keep the environment clean. They absorb harmful carbon-di-oxide  from the air and fill the atmosphere with life-sustaining oxygen. In this way they reduce air pollution. Therefore, trees are called "The Lungs Of Nature". Forests retain humidity and attract rains. There will be no rain if there is no trees. It is for this reason that trees are known as rain catchers.

     Trees check strong currents of wind and water and thereby prevent soil erosion. They thus help to preserve soil fertility. They prevent the fury of floods. Roots of trees keep the water below the soil clean.

     In fact, all our basic necessities, viz., air, water, food, clothing and shelter come directly or indirectly from trees. We thus, owe our very existence to trees.

     If there were no trees, there would be no rain and land would turn into the acid desert. Mankind would perish for want of food, drinking water, fresh air and sufficient humidity. So we should even remain grateful to trees. Our Prime and Urgent duty should be to conserve existing trees and grow more trees. The reckless felling of trees and the destruction of forests should be punished severely. Schemes of afforestation should be undertaken on a war footing and carried out for the very survival of mankind on this planet.

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