How Important Plants Are To Us?

How important plants are to us people? How important plants are to our environment and to the earth as a whole? What do you think would happen if plants will no longer in our place?

We cannot survive without plant that is why it is a necessity.  Plants are the source of almost our needs like:

• Fruits and vegetables are plants and they are our common foods. Herbs or spices are also included. Even the instant or processed foods are made up of plants. Example of processed foods that we are eating are the flour, noodles, bread and pastries, pies,
• Aside from animal’s skin and feathers as source of our clothes, shoes, and other things that are made-up of thread, plants are also considered one of the sources. Example is the fiber of the pineapple.
• Most medicines are from plants. Herbs, fruits, and vegetables are the common ingredients of drugs. As we all know, plants carries a lot of nutrients needed by our body to be healthy and fit.
• Perfume and cosmetics. Most perfume are from plants especially cosmetics like lotion, facial cream, and soap. Here in the Philippines, common fruit that producers are using in making soap is the papaya fruit.

Aside from those common given use of plants, it is also an air purifier. Plants reduce the dust in the air and it makes our surroundings fresh and clean. It also holds the soil to avoid landslides. During rainy season, it absorbs the water from the ground to avoid flooding.

Simple thing like beautifying our surroundings is also one of the important role of plants. Plants are really almost everything we have. Let us take care of them and grow more of it for our own benefit. Never let any plant be endangered. Wide garden is not necessary, even the small space outside your house will be enough to grow some vegetables and flowers.