barren land devoid of any trees to create a forest. The term should not be confused with reforestation‚ which is the process of specifically planting native trees into a forest that has decreasing numbers of trees. While reforestation is increasing the number of trees of an existing forest‚ afforestation is the creation of a ‘new’ forest. Our Earth has been constantly trying to cope with the way in which human beings use natural resources‚ clear forest lands‚ cut trees‚ and contaminate the air
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The importance of trees Trees are the largest and longest living organisms on earth. To grow tall the tree has become a miracle of engineering and a complex chemical factory. It is able to take water and salts out of the earth and lift them up to the leaves‚ sometimes over 400 ft above. By means of photosynthesis the leaves combine the water and salts with carbon dioxide from the air to produce the nutrients which feed the tree. In this process‚ as well as wood‚ trees create many chemicals‚ seeds
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chemicals‚ seeds and fruit of great utility to man. Trees also remove carbon dioxide‚ the main greenhouse gas‚ from the air. Trees are very important to our environment.Tropical rain forests are of particular significance; although they now occupy less than six per cent of the land surface of the earth‚ they sustain more than half of the biological species on the planet. Notwithstanding the debt we owe to trees‚ its emotive power‚ and its importance to other forms of life‚ the forested area of
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These woods‚ they’re not normal. Something is off about this place‚ and I can’t figure out what. I’ve lived in Washington for all my life‚ and I never thought the Tiger Mountain Forest would be this creepy. I live on my own‚ and there are things here that attack me. The only things that don’t hurt me are the voices‚ I don’t know where they come from‚ but they’ve been with me for years‚ even before I started living here. Life here isn’t the best‚ each day is a fight for food‚ for water‚ and for sanity
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Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver is a poem which‚ as with other poems she has written‚ connects things in nature to human experience and feeling. The first line held my full attention saying "I thought the earth remembered me‚" as I did not know at first why Oliver included the word thought. After closer examination and re-reading responses to this poem from Discussion Number 1‚ I came to the conclusion that this line could be talking about some sort of death‚ or what happens in the mind directly
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Chapter 12 Love Of Oneself Prepared By: Gumaling‚ Rey Monsanto Potato‚ Don Nelson Tangkihay Quinelet Wisdom‚ according to Socrates‚ begins with this one basic principle: “Know Thyself”. He referred to the human mind as a storehouse of truths which man has only to recognize in order to acquire a true and certain knowledge of what we ought to become as a persons. If anyone knows what is RIGHT and TRUE‚ he cannot help but choose it and act consistent with it. Accordingly‚ Socrates viewed knowledge as
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What other theories are there about the origin of man aside from religious Creationism and the theory of evolution? In: Christianity |[Edit] | |Answer There is the Raelian theory that mankind was genetically engineered by space aliens. Wikipedia: Panspermia Panspermia is the hypothesis that "seeds" of life exist already in the Universe‚ that life on Earth may have originated through these "seeds"‚ and that they may deliver or have delivered life to other habitable bodies. Wikipedia:
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Some things in our culture are real‚ while other things were formed into our reality based on ideas that people invented and somehow embedded in our norms‚ values‚ and beliefs. In Allan Johnson’s book The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life‚ Practice‚ and Promise‚ Johnson makes a claim to this idea that I completely agree with. Johnson States that “Most of what we take for “reality” consists not of things as they “really” are‚ but of ideas people have developed about things as they think they
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INTERDEPENDENCE OF MAN Man made rot is eating at the heart of nature. We are despoiling the heritage of our sons‚ our grandsons‚ and their grandsons. And now-direct from England-the world’s most conscientious ecology cartoon feature. A little overstated for our American tastes‚ perhaps‚ but full of real meat‚ nonetheless. Ah‚ if we only had a cartoon series like this on our side of the pond! But‚ since we don’t MOTHER EARTH NEWS presents Mr. Crabtree Crusades! Read this issue’s entire comic
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The rule following‚ intelligent girl‚ goes by the name of Alex Bailey. In the book‚ “The Land of Stories‚” written by Chris Colfer‚ Alex is on a search for the most wanted criminal in all of the kingdoms‚ the Masked Man. Alex had reason to believe that the Masked Man is her late father‚ who faked his death in the real world and fled to the Fairy Tale World. After witnessing him steal a potion from a castle‚ Alex has been searching near and far trying to uncover the truth about her father. After looking
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