Lesson 3 Nature & Us
Letters to Nature
Dear Tree, Whenever I walk past you, your beautiful leaves bring a smile to ____ face.
Whenever I stop in front of you and take a deep ____ of fresh air, I appreciate the oxygen that you produce.
Without you and all your friends, ____ humans wouldn’t be able to get enough oxygen.
By the ____ I noticed that a family of birds has made a nest in your branches.
It’s so kind of ____ to provide them with a home.
I hope that more people realize how important you and all the other trees are to the environment. Have ____ nice day!
Believe it or not, trees in Melbourne, Australia receive ____ like this all the time.
How is it ____ that trees have email addresses?
And why are people ____ them messages?
The story behind these ____ begins with Melbourne’s Urban Forest Strategy plan, a response to Australia’s millennium drought.
This drought lasted ____ the late 1990s to 2010.
By the time it ended, 40 percent of the city’s ____ trees were in a state of declining health.
Furthermore, the overall number ____ trees was decreasing.
As a result,
As a result, the amount of shade provided ____ trees within the city, also known as canopy cover, decreased.
The loss of canopy cover is a major threat to urban environments because ____ raises temperatures.
Higher temperatures in cities can be ____ for residents, as they increase the risk of heat exhaustion.
They also lead to a rise in the use ____ air-conditioning.
This speeds up climate change by increasing energy ____ and greenhouse gas emissions.
Something had to be done to ____ with the loss of Melbourne’s trees.
In 2012, the city government announced its ____ Forest Strategy plan.
It set the ambitious goal of planting more than 3,000 trees ____ year for the next twenty years.
The plan also involved the creation ____ an online map called the Urban Forest Visual.
This interactive map shows the ____ of every single tree in the city’s parks and along its roads.
It uses colors and ____ to indicate each tree’s age and genus.
Also, users can ____ on a tree to find out its species and even send it an email.
At first, the ____ this tree” function had a specific purpose.
It was designed to allow people to easily inform council workers about trees ____ were damaged or in poor health.
After the map was posted online,
After the map was posted online, ____ unexpected happened.
The trees started receiving thousands of emails, but many of them were not reports about damage or poor ____
Instead, they were love letters, poems, greetings, and messages expressing appreciation for ____ trees.
____ person wrote, “I love the way the light shines on your leaves and how your branches hang so low.
It ____ almost like you are trying to hug me.”
The tree mail phenomenon quickly spread, and people all over the world started ____ messages.
A message that was ____ all the way from Russia said,
“When I read about this wonderful ____ I was inspired to write to you, even though I live thousands of miles away.
Although we are separated by a great distance, we share ____ same planet and the same environment.
Perhaps ____ day we will meet. Until then, I hope you can stay healthy and strong.”
The global popularity of the tree mail phenomenon reminds us that we are all connected to nature, and we are all involved in building a more ____ world.
Without collective action from people across the globe, we would have little hope of saving our planet ____ future generations.
Locally, the tree mail phenomenon has inspired many Melbourne residents to offer their own ideas about building an environmentally ____ urban environment.
Some have even volunteered ____ measure trees and monitor animals for nature programs in the city.
Meanwhile, the Urban Forest Strategy’s tree planting project has remained on track, and canopy cover is predicted ____ increase from 23 percent in 2012 to 40 percent by the year 2040.
Melbourne’s urban forest strategy will help keep the city ____
It will also ____ residents to interact with nature and engage in outdoor activities every day.
As a result, residents will be happier and healthier as they move toward a ____ future.
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