New research shows that trees communicate with one another and share nutrients through their roots! They need each other. In urban areas, trees also help us with health, economic and social benefits. They are part of our culture. We need them. So, how can we return the favor?
Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :
- Great great great grandson
- Run around in the woods
- Make rope swings
- Inland rain forest
- We spent all of our summers in the bush
- Trees in urban environments are essential
- As equal partners
- People recover more quickly from surgery in hospitals
- The workplace
- There is evidence of these benefits
- Every trees was connected to every other tree
- Everything was connected to everything else
- We would bury then in the trees
- They literally live in the trees
- Trees can recognize their kin
- The air is cleaner
- Constant contact with trees
- It comes down to economics
- Kids are doing better in school
- A more urbanized nation
- The value of having nature in the city
- The cycle of life
- We are just a strand in this web
- We don’t own the earth we are part of the earth
- Maintain that connection
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