How astonishing a variety of nature!—In some countries we know the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence. Nature has a voice. Nature repairs her ravages—repairs them with sunshine, and with human labor.  The World’s major frost biomes, which are a broad, vegetational subdivision of some biogeographic realm (one of six major land regions, each having distinguishing types of plants and animals), shaped by climate, topography, and composition of regional soils, all have tall trees growing close enough together to form a fairly continuous canopy over an extensive region. There are three general types of forest trees. Which type prevails in a given region depends partly on distance from the equator. Evergreen broadleafs are dominant between 20 degrees north and south latitudes, most notable in the boreal forest or taiga (meaning swamp of forest) of northern hemisphere, and in cool climates in mountains further south.   An evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

 Most boreal forests occur in glaciated regions punctuated by cold lakes and streams. It rains mostly in summer, and evaporation is low in the cool summer air. The cold, dry winters are more severe in eastern parts of the continents than in the west, where oceanic winds moderate the climate. Spruce and balsam fir dominate the boreal forest of North America.  Other evergreen conifers include cedars, Doulas-firs, cypresses, firs, junipers, kauri, larches, pines, hemlocks, redwoods, spruces, and yews.  Evergreen trees originated in cold, northern climates.  In the north, the growing season (spring and summer) is very short compared to that of the south. Trees use light to make food, through photosynthesis. In order to survive in the shorter growing seasons, trees needed to gather light all year long. The only way to do this was to collect light for photosynthesis in the winter.  However, trees can only photosynthesize when water is available in useful form, so when the only water available water is snow or ice, even evergreen trees are dormant. They rest until conditions are right for photosynthesis to start again. In temperate climates, evergreens can reinforce their own survival; evergreen leaf and needle litter has a higher carbon-nitrogen ratio than deciduous leaf litter, contributing to a higher soil acidity and lower soil nitrogen content.

These conditions favour the growth of more evergreens and make it more difficult for deciduous plants to persist. In addition, the shelter provided by existing evergreen plants can make it easier for younger evergreen plants to survive cold and/or drought. Evergreen needles are an adaption, a change that allows them to survive. Botanists long ago discovered that needles are actually regular leaves that are rolled up very tightly. This shape is an adaptation that allows evergreens to conserve water, which is necessary for photosynthesis. Evergreen needles also have a very waxy coating that also helps to conserve water. Therefore, evergreen trees are regular trees, whose leaves are rolled up and covered with wax. They are made this way so they can made food for themselves all year long, without drying out. They will stay green as long as water is available. Evergreen Broadleaf forests are biomes that occur in tropical parts of Africa, Southeastern Asia, the East Indies, the Malay Archipelago, and South America, and Central America. Annual rainfall can exceed 200 centimeters and is never less than 130 centimeters. Where regular, heavy rainfall coincides with high humidity 980 percent or more) and the annual mean temperature is about 25 degrees Celsius, one will find highly productive tropical rain forest. Here, evergreen trees produce new leaves and shed old ones throughout the year.

Near the fringes of the biome, some trees are periodically bare during the driest season, but not for more than a few weeks. Because leaf production and leaf drop are generally continuous, tropical rain forest produce more litter than any other forest biome. However, decomposition and mineral cycling are rapid in the hot, humid climate. Also, the highly weathered soils, with little humus, are not a reservoir of nutrients. Pines, together with deciduous birches and aspens, are abundant in burned or logged areas. Acidic bogs, dominated by peat mosses, shrubs, and stunted trees, may develop in poorly drained areas. Boreal forest becomes much less dense to the north, where they grade into arctic tundra. However, Boreal conifers have many wintertime adaptations. The narrow conical shapes of northern conifers, and their downward-drooping limbs, help them shed snow. Many of them seasonally alter their biochemistry to make them more resistant to freezing, called hardening. While tropical rainforests have more biodiversity and turn over, the immense conifer forest of the World represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink, where carbon from atmospheric CO₂ is bound as organic compounds, which means the trees are cleaning the air and providing us with oxygen. They also have great economic value. Large coniferous forest once grew around forests once grew around the northern Great Lakes, but logging nearly destroyed them in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

 The montane coniferous forests of Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada of California are coniferous forest, which extend southward, through the great mountain ranges. Spruce and fir dominate the forest to the north and at higher elevations; fir and pine dominate Southern states and lower elevation. A temperate rain forest parallels the coast all the way from Alaska into northern California. It includes some of the World’s tallest trees—Sitka spruce to the north and redwoods to the south.   The Avenue of the Giants is located in Northern California and is 51,222 acres of redwood groves, where sixty percent of the World’s tallest trees can be viewed along the 31-mile avenue of the Giants. Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again: the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending to the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair. There is a very large tree, known as the Immortal Tree, and it is a redwood tree that is 76 meters (250 feet) tall and 950 years old. This tree used to be much taller, but it a direct lighting strike removed the top 14 meters (45 feet), reducing its size to 76 meters. The immortal tree survived a 1908 attempt at logging, and the flood of 1964.

 The Avenue of the Giants also features three living trees, in Northern California, which visitors can literally drive through. And there is even a cool tree house, which is actually a house, which is partially built within a living giant redwood.  This would be a fabulous place for a couple or family to visit and really experience the greatness of California.  God’s own presence is felt lingering yet, as if, in love with his own work, he stayed to touch it again—creating new charms in multiplied duration. Why should Nature’s law be mutual butchery? God detests the thoughts of the wicked, “but gracious words are pure in his sight,” reports Proverbs 15.26 Nature will smile though priests may frown. “Do not conform to this World, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind and thoughts, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect,” reports Romans 12.2. Therefore, if you want to be happy, change your exposure, what you watch, read and listen to and the people you are around. Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness. Nature has a language of her own, which she uses with strict veracity, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And are you not just as valuable to him as they are? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day is enough to focus on.” Matthew 6.26-27 and 34.