I Love Trees

I love trees. I love rocks, and rivers, and mountains and the ocean.  They are important to the earth.  Trees help to regulate the wind and the temperature of the earth.  Humans have been cutting down trees faster than they can grow them.  There are so little trees left that wood harvesters are chipping them up, and manufacturing wood products to use.  Humans are not recycling as much as they could or should.  Unless there is a state law, like in Oregon or California, people do not actively reduce and reuse.  Millions of bottled water bottles are dumped in landfills instead of being recycled back into bottles. We have a recycle box that is provided by our waste management company, but they never come to pick up the recyclables.  My flattened cardboard and washed cans sit on the side of the road.  Our state does not require the people to recycle, it is a suggestion.  If we could recycle the cardboard that ends up in landfills, we could stop cutting down trees. I love trees, I feel them weeping with agony as they are stripped of their limbs and cut from the land and their family and I am always saddened when I see those logging trucks full of trees hemorrhaging their life essence down the road. I love trees.