Amazing Facts of Trees

Trees are the longest living organism on the Earth.

A mature leafy tree produces oxygen for ten people to inhale in a year

One acre of trees can remove upto 2.6 tones of Carbon-di-oxide each year.

No tree dies of old age. They are killed by insects, disease or people.

An average tree absorbs 2000 liters of water every year.

The entire tree grows from the top and not from the bottom.

Tree leaves remove tiny particles of soot, dust which otherwise damages human lungs.

Planting 30 trees in a year offsets green house gases from home and car.

One tree filters up to 27 kg of pollutants from air.

The age of a tree can be calculated by its rings.

Trees absorb 90% of the nutrition from atmosphere and 10% from soil.

An average sized tree can provide wood for 1, 70,000 pencils.

14 billion pencils are made by cutting 82,000 trees every year.

A single edition of Daily News paper uses wood from 500 trees to make the paper.

850 million trees are cut down for making 50 million tons of paper.

25, 00,000 trees are used for publishing books.

Every ton of recycled paper saves 380 gallons of oil.

We save 17 trees when we recycle every ton of paper.

Each vegetarian saves one acre of trees. Follow vegetarian diet.

Remember the source of the paper when wasting it.

Every book we read was once a tree.

Plant a tree for every book you read.

Nurture Trees to Nourish Birds, animals and insects.

Nurture Trees to Nourish Water and Air.

Nurture Trees to Nourish Earth.