[fishtank]

Photo from article.

(The beetles killed these trees....)

[cripplecreek]

I can’t live without my trees.

[Jim Robinson]

Yes, but the trees don’t.

[Uncle Chip]

Yes — because leaves make better toilet paper than rocks.

[Starstruck]

Do People Live Longer among Trees

Probably not if "AXEMEN" is real.

[blueunicorn6]

No.....rutabagas.....that’s the secret to long life.

[Paladin2]

It’s because man descended from trees.

[ßuddaßudd]

How many people were killed last year by falling tree branches?

[MarMema]

In Japan they are going wild on this idea and there is an excellent writing on this in Outside magazine, called "Take two hours of pine forest and call me in the morning" as I recall.

In which they show that being outside in nature lowers your blood pressure - they showed this years ago with people watching fish tanks though. And no surprise, sitting at a computer terminal does not help with depression or stress like being outside does.

There is some good science coming into it, as they are working on brain scans, etc in Tokyo to show that being out in nature, ie among trees, is good for us. I am following this and finding it interesting.

[C. Edmund Wright]

did anyone stop to think that perhaps there are other factors...like, say, those who live in low rent housing have no trees around, while those in the suburbs are surrounded by trees——meaning incomes, nutrition, education, etc are the causal factors, and the trees are just collateral?

[Last Dakotan]

Homosexuals don’t “camp-out”.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I sure HOPE so; I sell trees for a living! :)

[layman]

I live in the city and spend most summer weekends and vacations in a heavily treed cottage at a lake. At the cottage I feel more energetic, have a healthy appetite, and sleep better than I do at home. I have always attributed it to the much richer supply of oxygen in the air due to the trees.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I wouldn’t doubt it. Trees give off a lot of oxygen, and a good oxygen supply would seem to be pretty obviously linked to good health. They also provide a lot of shade, and baking in the sun all the time can’t be the great for your long-term prospects. A lot of trees probably also grow well in places that are otherwise healthier for humans as well. I live in a 68-acre planned development with 2000 trees, many of them huge, so this bodes well for me!

[GnL]

Do People Live Longer among Trees?

If by "trees" you mean "beer," I'd have to say yes.

[AuntB]

I don’t know if one lives longer living among trees. But I do know life isn’t worth the bother without them!