Trees are amazing..

[Colours]

i had a revelation....with alittle help that is :). trees are just "lungs", if you will, by which the living earth "breathes" theyre so huge and random. . . what else could they be for? The earth needs trees to survive and humans need trees to survive. its a never ending struggle!

[Becknudefck]

actually tress make up a very little percent of the earths oxygen. its mainly like plants in the ocean and such. or so i heard.....

[Colours]

i forgot to mention the fact that humans cut down the trees to survive and we are killing the earth. maybe that makes my babbling a little better.

[Peace]

The cutting of trees doesn't kill the earth. It simply limits the amount of CO2 that is used which in turn destroys our ozone layer. And no trees aren't lungs, they're just an organism.

[NatureFreak412]

Just an organism?????
Its called life.

Trees are great. I love them. They can be cooler than animals.

Cut down all the trees and see what happens. The world will look like shit, and we will slowly die.

So yeah, they are just organisms.

[Colours]

k ...i wasnt talking literally....it was just athought i had where i saw the earth as a living organism, and trees were its "lungs" that it reaches out with to "breathe" sheeeesh

[TrippinBTM]

The cutting of trees doesn't kill the earth. It simply limits the amount of CO2 that is used which in turn destroys our ozone layer. And no trees aren't lungs, they're just an organism.
True, but a very important organism, many of the world's ecosystems depend on them. They draw water up from deep in the soil, reduce erosion, provide homes for many creatures, they do have a vital role in the carbon cycle (and are thus in a sense, lungs). Without them, soil erodes or salinifies, the land dries out, animals lose their homes/habitats, etc etc.

The earth won't die without them, but it will be very different, probably not a place we'd want to live in either.