Why Plants Are Amazing
The Plants are Back!
They’re around your house, at school, in the park, and… you’ll never believe this, in your own garden! I know, it’s crazy right? Plants are awesome, and they keep us alive! They produce our oxygen and have been the source of 90% of our food and medicine for years. They are very beneficial and definitely breath-taking. Ha, get it? Because they breathe in the carbon dioxide that we breathe out!
So, the flowers have been blooming and the trees have been growing their leaves back. After that “winter” we just went through, there is finally some color in our area. Many enjoy and have been enjoying the color and running through the water on a hot day, or just sitting back and reading a book. But enough of that, let’s talk about plants.
So, have you ever noticed how interesting it is to watch a plant grow? Yes, this question may be a joke to some of you, but really, think about it. Isn’t it fun and exciting to watch them grow? Like that moment when you realize that that little seed you put in the ground is actually doing something. Now that is exciting, and to watch it get bigger and bigger over the weeks, it’s actually quite fun.
Could you imagine a world without plants? I mean, wouldn’t it be so dismal and boring? Sure, you may not pay much attention to them, but they certainly do bring the world to life, literally. Without plants, we wouldn’t be able to live, because plants produce the oxygen we need to live, and we all need oxygen.
Remember to respect plants, because they respect you. Never rip plants up from the ground, unless they’re out of control, and make sure not to hurt our lovely trees, they are essential! And they’re beautiful as well!
The research since
Plants leave such a mark on Earth that it shows from space. A 2026 white paper on the search for life on other worlds (arXiv:2607.03106) notes that oxygen-producing photosynthesis creates two global signs that can be seen from space: oxygen in the atmosphere and the Vegetation Red Edge, a step up in how much light leaves reflect between red and near-infrared. Watching plants grow has gone high tech too. A 2023 project (arXiv:2304.03610) used a 3D camera to measure tomato leaves without harming the plants, estimating leaf size with a typical error of 4.47 mm.

