Celebrate trees at the Arboretum and in your community!

The Morton Arboretum created Arbor Week (which was April 18-26, 2009) to draw attention to the importance of trees and their role in maintaining the Arboretum’s initiatives to create a greener, healthier world. Arbor Week may be behind us, but you can celebrate trees any time of the year. Discover ways you can make a difference!

Check out some of the comments we collected from Chicago fourth and fifth grade school children on the ”One Tree Makes a Difference” ribbons that were tied to the Triumph elm on Michigan Avenue during Arbor Week. Out of the mouths of babes!

Kid’s Comments: One Tree Makes a Difference . . . because
. . . I have felt really proud to help something grow, and I have helped my community.
. . . Birds build nests and lay their eggs in trees. Squirrels get nuts for trees or they take their nuts and leave them on the tree.
. . . Trees would also give me wood to build a tree house. I can spend my summer there.
. . . Trees also block the sun because when they do, not too much light will be on their face.
. . . it gives life to us.
. . . by giving me leaves to play with in the fall.
. . . by giving me shade on a hot day.
. . . by giving me a good place to play!
. . . It can be home to many different animals that can provide me with something to watch and enjoy.
. . .  because earth needs all the help it can have.
. . . If they chop down my favorite tree I will not be happy because it was my favorite tree. It was like a friend to me.
. . . They do us huge favors and they don’t even know it!
. . . Where would squirrels go and what about the poor little birds that they make their nests in?
. . . it might be a tree that you want to sit under.
. . . One tree can change the world!
. . . if any tree gets cut down the animals that live in it won’t have any home and that will make me feel sad because I’m an animal lover.
. . . lots of animals camouflage with green and brown. If a tree wasn’t there they would be found easily.
. . . One tree can provide oxygen to make the plants healthy and strong and to keep the plants dancing in the wind!
. . . Trees provide oxygen and shade so you’re not stressed.
. . . It helps our community be a better world.
. . . One tree can dance to the music of the oxygen’s fresh air.
. . . trees are amazing to me because they make me so happy to live in this world.
. . . It also gives home to animals which can make us laugh.
. . . When you eat junk food your stomach might hurt, so fruits are important to us.
. . . I even water my tree by my house. That’s how trees should be treated.
. . . By providing the needs we humans need!
. . . it lets us live in a peaceful world.
. . . We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the trees. They give us air to breathe.So let’s plant trees to live!
. . . Trees are our future!
. . . A breath of fresh air shows us the difference one tree can make.
. . . Conserve trees because we need the rain forest.
. . . The city looks beautiful with trees.
. . . If you cut down a tree you are leaving animals homeless.
. . . It could let the animals stay at their homes and not move all the time.
. . . Cutting a tree is like demolishing a home!
. . . If you cut down trees you are cutting out a piece of life.
. . . one tree can protect us from a sunny day with its shadow.
. . . when we’re hot the trees give us a little wind, which that breeze feels very good.
. . . there is one tree that reminds me of my old house.
. . . They are serene and gorgeous.
. . . I think that we’re harming everything including ourselves.
. . . each tree is special and each tree has its own reason to be alive.
. . . every tree chopped down kills the world a little bit.
. . . trees are our helpers.
. . . One tree that makes a difference to me is the one in front of my house because it gives me the most oxygen and one day I dream to be on top of it.
. . . to save one tree means to me like saving a life.
. . . trees give shade for picnics.
. . . Trees help make the earth smile good!

Thank you to JEWEL-OSCO, presenting sponsor for Arbor Week 2009. 
 

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