Sometimes it's difficult to think of plants as vital living organisms. Unlike human beings and animals, plants don't think, communicate, or move about. However, in their own way, plants are pretty amazing.
Plants can actually manufacture their own food.
They collect and transport nutrients from the soil through elaborate passages and combine these elements with chemicals and sunlight to feed themselves. That's why healthy plants are teeming with vibrant leaves and branches. If a plant loses a branch, it continues to live and grow. The branch, however, will soon shrivel up and die. A branch, after all, only exists to serve the plant.