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Plants and trees make our surroundings clean and fresh. They make our earth
pure and beautiful. Plants have great importance in our life. Without plants and

trees we cannot expect life on the earth. They give us food, fuel, shelter, clothes,
etc. They are helpful in many ways. Trees help in bringing rain. Rains, in turn,
fulfil our requirement of water.

We depend so much on trees that we cut them frequently to meet our requirements.
This excessive cutting of trees has led to the shortage of food, water and shelter
for the animals in the forest.

I mportance Of Trees

Our life depends on food, clothing, shelter and water, and trees provide us all of
them. They help us in many ways:

1. We get food from them in the form of

fruits, vegetables, spices and seeds,
etc. Factual Study
• Trees have been
2. We get air (oxygen) to breath. in existence on
Timber
3. They prevent soil erosion. the earth for 370
million years.
4. They are helpful in bringing rain.
• No trees die of
5. They provide us raw materials old age. They
like wood to make paper, timber are generally

to make furniture and firewood for Table killed by insects,
fuel, etc. diseases or cut by

people.
6. They provide us with shelter.

7. Trees also provide us medicines.
Firewood

We are cutting more trees day by
day to meet our needs. Cutting

down trees in huge numbers is
called deforestation. Deforestation

has many harmful effects on the
Deforestation Cutting Trees environment like causing impure air,
less rainfall, soil erosion, etc., so we should plant more trees.

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