Forests are complex living worlds composed of intertwined layers of life and stretching across massive, diverse landscapes, blanketing our planet with swaths of green. They’re also nature’s great providers, pulling carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it via photosynthesis, filtering and absorbing air pollutants, releasing clean oxygen for us to breathe, providing habitat and food for wildlife, stabilizing soils, growing food and medicine, protecting us from harmful UV rays, acting as natural air conditioners, securing our freshwater supplies, and amongst many other benefits!

As such, the importance of trees and forests in our lives cannot be overstated — from cooling our climate to delivering water deep inland, their roots touch everything. From ancient times to today, humans have depended on trees and forests for food, shade, and shelter.
As a result, we all share a deep, natural connection to trees.