Greetings to all fellow citizens on World Environment Day. Let us all bow down to every element of our environment which is always vibrating. Little plants-large trees, tiny springs-big rivers, tiny pebbles-huge mountains. Insects and humans. Today is the day to bow to all and pay reverence for their generosity.
By the way, Environment Day is celebrated every year. Every year some rituals are performed. Concerns are expressed. There are discussions on the threat to the environment. The concern is that environmental issues are not being deeply linked to our civic culture. Be it climate change or issues of keeping rivers clean and alive or saving trees. Our connection should have been deep.
Years ago the great English nature lover poet William Wordsworth said that let nature be your teacher. Nature teaches us that human life can be happy in any case. Co-existence is one of the greatest lessons of nature. Tamarind never asks Mahua why you grew in front of me. The tree does not give any punishment to the woodpecker that pierces the thick trunk of the tree with its sharp beak.
Recently came across some excerpts from the book 'The Hidden Life of Trees' by German botanist and very talented author Peter Holbein. Now it has been proved that trees communicate with each other. They have no script. They transmit their messages to each other through smell. They are sad and they rejoice too. It has also been proved by research that trees that live among members of their species have a longer life.
Every year the month of July comes and the people who pretend to save the environment assemble in large numbers. Photos of sapling plantations are published in the newspapers. As soon as the plantation time is over, no one asks in what condition the saplings that were planted are. They clearly escape their responsibility when there is the real task of protecting the saplings. Therefore, very few saplings survive out of the total number of those planted.