'Nature' is something very difficult to define. In simple words it is just what exists around us, but for me, it is anything that I relate to, Even if it is my spirit or my soul. It is that strong connection that I establish with anything that i relate to, and the minute I lose the connect, I lose myself. The possibility of thinking of losing the opposite entity might be just a mirage for a while, but in the long term, It is that 'Me' that is going to wither.
I came down to this earth, being gifted with the possibility of living in the most serene setting, which I could have preserved and let live along with me. But each day there is a massacre of a part of Mother earth, who had provided me the comfort of sitting under the calm shade of the trees, breathing the clean air, staring at the countless no of stars in the clear blue sky, marveling at the different colors in species, etc. Today we are trying to soothe ourselves in a man built environment which we think will sustain forever. Our appetite to consume the natural and create an artificial is not only going to devour the earth, but soon will find a termination to all those over-ambitious needs of man and man himself.
It is heart rending to see that man is doing little to stop himself from unknowingly digging his own grave. We continue to teach our next generation the art of out-doing the limited, through our pseudo aspirations and find pleasure in those momentary triumphs and accomplishments. Man was allowed to live and enjoy nature, but he has taken his undue advantage of the 'right tofreedom' by transforming the nature to such an extent convenient to his lavishness, that little does he realize that the end is not too far.
Man and Nature were to be woven into an integrated existence. Unpredictable ironies of saturation and greed have given rise to withering of nature's crown. The rivers are running dry, the earth is getting barren, and the human in each of us doesn't seem to care. Why are we forgetting, that we dint make the nature... it was the nature that patterned the human race...
We dont seem to want the eternal laws that will protect us for sure, if we cared little for the ecosystem.
A few thoughts :
The earth was filled with greens
The basins were filled with streams,
Man was then modest and fair with mother earth
Till his mind got filled with all the smut and dirt...
Little did he need then to meet his want
Little there is left today, that he doesn’t want,
He sliced the timber, he raked up the land
Little did he know, his approach would not stand...
Wish he sees his path ahead,
The long life which he and his brood shall tread...
Stop, look back at the footprints and walk back the rope
Mother Nature says ‘Child-there is still some hope’...
Wish man changes his ill-made destiny
And let mother Earth run the tyranny,
Lead that happy serene life again,
Awaken at once, before all goes in vain...
Divya Hegde
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