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nPosted on June 15, 2019
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nThe English translation of today’s holiday is “Day of the Tree” or possibly “Tree Day.”
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nBut in English, we commonly call Tree Day “Arbor Day” – using the Latin word for tree, arbor. (We also use the word arbor to mean a shady garden “room” created by plants – the walls and roof are either trees or climbing plants trained over wooden trellises.)
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nNotice that the Spanish word for tree, árbol, is very similar to the Latin word. Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian are all called Romance languages, from Romans – who spoke, of course, Latin.
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| Even though people love trees, we cut them down in order to plant crops, build cities, and use wood as lumber or to make paper. But we should be mindful about how many trees we take – they provide SO MUCH that we need. Like, you know, oxygen! |
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nOf course, trees are important in every country, because trees provide shade, shelter, and most important oxygen; they help fight global warming by using carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; they provide necessities such as food (fruits and nuts), fire, building materials, and paper; they are beautiful; they hold the soil and provide homes to wildlife and are a super necessary part the ecosystem!
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Trees are maybe even more important to Costa Rica than to some nations, because the rainforests of Costa Rica are among the most beautiful in the world and attract tourists. There are about 100 species of trees in Costa Rica’s rainforests, and the forests are homes to everything from gorgeous orchids and colorful birds to quick-moving monkeys and slow-moving sloths.
Trees are maybe even more important to Costa Rica than to some nations, because the rainforests of Costa Rica are among the most beautiful in the world and attract tourists. There are about 100 species of trees in Costa Rica’s rainforests, and the forests are homes to everything from gorgeous orchids and colorful birds to quick-moving monkeys and slow-moving sloths.n
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nAlso on this date:
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Agricultural Fieldays in New Zealand
Agricultural Fieldays in New Zealand
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nNational Salvation Day in Azerbaijan
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nNature Photography Day
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nGlobal Wind Day
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nMagna Carta Day
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nSculptor Malvina Hoffman’s birthday
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nValdemar’s Day in Denmark
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nArkansas’s Statehood Anniversary
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nNative American Citizenship Day
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nAnniversary of the arrival of pigs and goats on Martinique
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nWorld Juggling Day
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n(Saturday closest to June 15)
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