Some are willowy and some weep. The Great Old Designer unveiled the first prototype 300 million years ago. It inspired 10,000 new designs. There are grand trees like Redwoods, which soar 20-storeys high. A big red can make 40 houses. The tree is ancient, yet an idea for today. It has solar cells that turn sunlight into energy. It's a water treatment plant too.
A Bristlecone Pine lives more than 4,000 years old. So if you see one, it might have been a sprig 19 centuries before the Roman Empire. Kids swing from trees. Birds nest in them. Every boy has a treehouse dream.
The lovestruck carve its bark.
Trees are like hippies: sun-worshippers. Without trees, you won't have apples, and without Apple, you won't have iPod. You'd have no family tree.
You'd have nothing to read. (It takes one tree to make 270 paperbacks.) Wooden cribs cradle the young. Rocking chairs coddle the old. Fact: Hospital patients whose rooms face trees heal faster. A gingko was one of the few survivors of Hiroshima. Trees inhale the carbon which makes us sick. And exhale oxygen to give us life. (Isn't it ironic they call a factory a plant?) Two big trees produce enough oxygen for a family of four. You can bask in the light, but it's cooler in the shade. Around a wood fire, friends are made. Buddha sat under a Po tree.