Do you think we could exist without Trees?

Lovely question Jenny. I am a passionate gardener and have quite a number of trees in my garden - Cashsew, mango, sapota, cherry, fig, love apple (jam, areca, coconut, nutmeg,star fruit, pappaya, guava and ofcourse other flowering trees. I have birds visiting my garden for whom I have also installed a bird bath. One of my trees gave me a bumper crop and here is the video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZrNLeEPEs . Enjoy

It's a 50/50 for me. I mean, yes the trees are messy to clean up after. But without trees we would probably be kind of screwed. Because don't forget that trees produce the carbon dioxide the is needed to help produce the oxygen we need to breathe. They provide the shade we need in the spring and summer seasons. And when it is raining, for those states that has a lot of flash floods. The roots from the trees help keep the ground stable.

i live in a city, specially in my area, there are only few trees. but i have one banana tree which is not really a good tree to provide shade. and i have one avocado tree, its limbs are thin actually, the leaves fall often but not too many. its branches are not that strong so climbing on it is not really advisable.

I love the trees too.especially the lemon trees,many guys should know the song "lemon tree" I think......"I wonder how,I wonder why,yesterday you told me about the blue-blue sky......." How beautiful the words are!How funny feelings we may have! back to the topic,I love lemon trees for another reason is that the lemon is full of vitamin C,it is very good to our health!

i come from the mountain, so there are so many trees there. i do love trees so much, first, they are green, and can make my eyes fell better after i reading for some time. second, they give us the fresh air. etc. but i dont know which kind of trees i like the most, but most of them.

In our country, Govt. have declread a rule but people are not obeying this and cutting tree but I have seen in many state in our country, many people are tring to plant trees as many as possible but it is in their area. so animals are not getting their home like forest..and foriest are cutting by our poor people for their livlehood..

We need trees in order to live they provide us with oxygen whilst taking in all the carbon.. They are so benefitial to us humans as well as providing homes for wildlife. We have a gum tree out the front of our place with a hole in it and you see rainbow lorikeits in there and kookaburra's hang around there too. I love large old oak trees the best.. I do enjoy the smell of the gum trees after the rain... I love seeing alley ways of trees along a road.

you know my daughter was wacthing a bunch of trees being knocked down to build another home of course there are a bunch of plazas that are empty an homes that are empty an she asked our cousin who of course is in real estate an was born with a silver spoon in her mouth why are they knocking down the trees she said to build better houses an my daughter said but the animals will lose thier home an how will we breath our cousin said she was being dumb we do not need trees an her mom is crazy cause she is a tree hugger well guess what I know we need the trees an thankfully my daughters are growwing up to respect what mother earth gave us anif trying to save whats left of our nature makes me crazy I guess I am a crazy lady then

Hi Jenny, sorry not got a spare 8 hours to try and move my picture of olive and orange trees from my profile to here. Everywhere is packed with olive trees here, I think they are beautiful as well as providing all our oil. If it's windy the branches move around and look silvery. We also have lots of orange trees which even grow street side in the town centre, it's lovely to see them all full or oranges. A couple of hours further north the main variety is pine trees which grow very high and scent the air with pine. Greece would not be Greece though without the olive trees which are everywhere, they even grow jutting out from rocks on steep hills but every tree belongs to someone.

This i feel is simple. Without trees i would definitely not survive. The reasons being that i am a vegetarian and the second reason being that there would be no fresh air that is free from pollutants.

hi, jennybianca, I am sorry I can not agree with your topic, you said that we could exist without trees, I can agree with that, I want to say , without trees we can not live,trees can produce oxygen ,and oxygen is very important to people.this is my opinion

Hi! I think we can't exist without trees, because they make the life on the Earth possible. Trees absorb the carbon dioxide and turn it in to oxygen, so we and all the leaving creatures on this planet can live. Without tree we can't survive even for a day. They also protects the soil from erosion, and also protect it from dragging down. Tree are even more important than the ozone stratum, because without it, we may live for day or two, or even for more, but without oxygen we can't survive more than a minute!!! So take care for the nature and don't destroy all the things it gives us.

Hello,without the Trees ,plants and all green ness around us there is no life.To prevent pollution we need Trees.If one tree is to be cut we should plant atleast 10 plants in its place.Oxygen is the main thing for us to survive.In in the environment we need them for a balance in the nature.Cutting down of trees is also one of the reason for Global warming.

I think we couldnt exist without trees around. Especially today, where the planet's carbon dioxide emission boosts sky-high. Trees uses those carbon dioxide as part of the process of making their food. I think natural calamities are worse without those trees. I do love trees. I love nature.

I really do nopt think we can exist without trees. that is how they survive, is by us breathing and we breathe also from their existence. That si what I was taught in my science class in junior high school.

Trees are beautiful to look at and do have purposes. They can be a home for animals and branches are places for birds to perch. I live in a country in Europe with a temperate climate. We have four seasons, summer is hot, autumn is cold, winter is very cold and spring is cool. The majority of the trees shed their leaves in autumn, are bare in the winter and have new leaves in the spring. So the trees are deciduous. There are a few evergreens. There are elm trees, horse chestnut trees, oak trees and conifer trees. I live in a coastal destination and some hardy palms survive here. They have been imported and then grown here. I don't know how to upload photos. I like the photo of your gum tree. I loved visiting beautiful Australia.

No we would not exist without trees. Trees and other plants give off oxygen which we breathe and need to survive. Humans give off carbon dioxide which plants and trees need to survive. So no I don't think we would exist without trees and if we did our species probably wouldn't be as evolved due to lack of oxygen in the atmosphere.

hi jenny, there so many trees here in my place. we got shrubs as well that grows up to 7 or 8 feet high and looks like trees. i dont know its name. but the very popular here are fruit bearing ones, mangoes, and coconuts, guavas, mangosteen, and many others. i love places where i could see the sky in open field while i lie down on green grass on a shady portion under the tree. beautiful feeling. ann

I think we need trees to exist as we are. I don't know a lot about the enviornment, but I know we need trees for many things. They give off oxygen and help with erosion not to mention being a home for various animals and insects. In the US they make a big deal about the enviornment, and I always thought it was like that all over the planet. We have a lot of trees in my area, but I'm not sure what they are. I think mostly Elms and Evergreens.

Your post is quite different to the title, im not sure which to answer. im spoilt for choice :) But yeh, without trees we would die. Trees take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. so that animals (like us) can breath. Also we eat fruit and stuff that grow on trees.