When you think about it, wood is pretty amazing. It’s a natural resource that you can use for so many different reasons. Just look around the room you are currently sitting in––it is next to impossible not find something that doesn’t have something to do with wood. Sitting here in my study, the things that I see that are wooden are: a hippo statue, a zebra statue, built-in bookshelves, a coffee table, the entertainment center, the cabinets, the couch, the chairs, the side tables, the lamps, the clock, the picture frames, the wood molding, the printer paper, all of the pages in the books on the shelves, the board game boxes and the Bolivian people statues. The majority of things are made out of wood.
The hardest part about wood being really versatile is that we don’t have an unlimited supply of trees to use. Trees are always in demand, but it becomes a problem since we can’t cut down all of the trees in the world. (Interestingly, IKEA alone uses 1% of the world’s commercial wood supply.) Trees are essential for producing oxygen, creating habitats, cleaning the air, being natural wind breakers, creating essential shade in the summer time, and bringing beauty to the earth.
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