"Search
where you may,
You will not find a land
As beautiful as
this,
She is the queen of all lands,
This land of my birth,
My
motherland."
Dwijendra Lal
Roy
"The
world is finite, resources are scarce,
Things are bad and will be
worse,
Coal is burned and gas exploded,
Forests out and soil
eroded,
Wells are dry and air polluted,
Dust is blowing, trees are
uprooted,
Oil is going, ores depleted,
Drains receive what is
excreted,
Land is sinking, seas are rising,
Man is far too
enterprising,
Fires will rage with man to fan it,
Soon we will
have a plundered planet."
K. E
Boulding
"God is
the light of the heaven and the earth;
the likeness of his Light is
as a niche
wherein is a lamp kindled from a blessed tree,
An
olive that is neither of the east nor the west,
Whose well nigh would
shine even if no fire touched it;
Light upon
Light."
Quran
24:35
The
Future
What does the future
hold for us?
Smog filled skies and poison cars,
And broken land
with useless dust
And nature’s beauty behind
bars.
Can I ever
show my children,
(If they ever come my way)
The beauty of a
sunset
At the ending of the day?
Can I walk
into a forest,
And surround myself with trees,
Yet know that it
will remain,
For me to visit as I
please.
I know that
I can today
Do all the things I’ve said,
But when today is
yesterday,
Will all these things be
dead?
This problem
is enormous
As we gradually take heed,
So we must fix it
quickly,
Using words and thoughts and
deeds."
From
the Pachamama
"The leaky tap
drips day and night
Just fix it
right or shut it tight,
It seems the earth with water abounds
But
thinks its every drop that really counts.
The tap is on you brush
your teeth
The water flows, you soap your feet
Just think of all
the water lost
To close the tap, what does it cost?
The water
bottle you take to school
The water in it is nice and cool
You
drink a bit, the rest you throw,
The water could help a plant
grow."
From
CEE - The Green Teacher
"There
was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
The earth and every common
sight
To me did seem
Apparell’d in celestial light,
The glory
and the freshness of a dream.
It is not
now as it had been of yore;
Turn whereso’er I may,
By night or
day, the things which I have seen I now can see no
more."
William
Wordsworth
"Only by sharing our deeper thoughts
and feelings do
we communicate
to, and inspire in others, a love
And respect for
the earth."
Joseph
Bharat Cornell
"Plant
the mango, plant the tamarind and the plantain:
Clusters of fruit
will weigh their boughs.
Plant ten kachner trees for flowers.
In a
garden set the tulsi.
Water them
unweariedly, but they will always wither.
But the trees in the forest
which depend on god alone,
Never wither and die.
The forest tree
grows always."
A Gond
folk song
Just
yesterday, it seems
the fields were full of grain
Just
yesterday, the water
came from heaven
and the earth was not
athirsty
But
yesterday is five years gone
and today is nought but rubble
a
wilderness of earth
bakedbrown by the relentess desert
sun.
Amit
Jayaram (The Web of Life)
"Do not be blind to
the marvels of Nature,
One draught of Nature’s elixir is better than
a dozen doses of any other drink.
Incomparable is the joy that man
finds in his world of a thousand wonders
When he lives in communion
with Nature.
From Nature unto Nature’s God is the next clear
step."
Thus
spoke Zarathushtra
"This
universe is the creation of Supreme Power meant for the benefit of
all;
Individual species must therefore learn to enjoy its benefits by
forming a part of the system in close relationship with other
species;
let not the other species encroach upon the other’s
right."
Translated
from the Isavasya Upanishad
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