Published January 1st 2019 by Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
If you’re like me, you’ll pick up this book because you care about the environment, and you want to learn everything you can about it, so that you can do your share to help out. The description of this book is something that jumped out to me actually more than the cover, because it just sounded really interesting and I love short non fiction books. This book was everything I wanted it to be and more.
Trees really do make a lot of things in the world, and I think that we take advantage of that. Every single year, over fifteen billion trees are cut down world wide, and every year that number grows, and the demand for products and the world’s population grows. What most people don’t know, including me until I read this book, is that trees are so much more than just big plants that produce air for us, as well as many of our every day products. Trees actually communicate with each other, mostly through their roots, and they can share nutrients if they feel like a nearby tree is lacking in any.
Trees make everything from food, clothes, and shelter, to medicine and warmth. It’s scientifically proven that people really do feel physical and mental benefits from being around trees, and like people, there are mother and baby trees that take care of each other. Stumps can still reproduce asexually and grow buds that can turn into new trees, and when some specific kinds of trees can live to be over four thousand years old, cutting down the trees at the age they are now, or seeing tree farms, just makes me feel sad.
Overall, I learned all these things and more from this short book. It’s full of beautiful pictures and charts to teach you kind of a refresher course about how plants live and change the environment around them, and I really feel like I know a lot more about them because of this book. I want to be more conscious of the products I buy, and I think that together, we really might be able to make a change in the world. I recommend this book to everyone, fiction and non fiction lovers everywhere.
The book is available here.
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