WHY?—

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 October 1925, Page 18

WHY?—

Why is so much of Nature Green ?

Wherever Life can find a footing there we find it. It varies in a thousand ways, but we find it almost everywhere. It is always limited, and decided by the fobd suply; and thus we find it most abundant where the iood supply is most abundant. „ . The distribution of living things depends on the distribution of the kind of food they on. If that is widely distributed so arc they; if the food -is not widely distributed, neither are thev. Of all the possible foods of life, by far the most widely distributed is carbon dioxide, as that occurs in the air, and so is to be had wherever the air is. Thus, the most widely distributed kind of life is that which is capable of feeding on carbon dioxide, and the .only kind of life which can do this is that which produces the green substance called chlorophyllone of the most important chemical compounds in the world. That is the reason why so much of Nature is green. And if wo know the relation of the green plant’s life to our own we should learn that there must be a certain amount of green life in Nature, if we are to live. At present we destroy green fields and cut down green trees without any thought—for our cities, and tables, and so on; but.much of Nature must always, remain green, unless man learns how-to use the carbon dioxide of the air as the green plant does.