Some gifts are bright and beautiful. Some gifts are deep and lasting. We get both kinds from trees.
Their beauty is obvious: The lacework of tree branches dusted with snow, the green shade they bring to summer streets and yards, the bright explosion of fall color, the grace they add to our landscape, the sense of continuity and richness they bring to our lives.
Yet trees give us much more that is harder to see, says Jessica Turner-Skoff, whose role as treeologist at The Morton Arboretum is outreach about science and trees.
Click here to read more from Beth Botts, staff writer for the Morton Arboretum.
Photo: Matt McClellan
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