Today, I heard that in some part of the country, people are willing to cut more trees in public parks and gardens for cremation on pyres. The trees, sole provider of Oxygen will now be cut to suffice cremation?
It’s been long, that the world is suffering due to Corona virus pandemic. Seems we are already at war with our basic survival, our existence. Daily reports of desperation and deaths are creating emptiness and hollow hopes in the suffering souls and rest is all blame game. Lives at stake due to the crisis of Oxygen, the base of life and still we haven’t realized the importance of trees and forests.
I believe humanity is suffering due to the destruction of Forests and the lost wilderness. Forests and wildlife help contain diseases and epidemics from further transmission into humans. Various research studies show that the global rise in temperature has forced iceshelfs and glaciers to melt and further releasing unknown pathogens in the environment. The aftermath of globalisation and urbanisation has created ecological imbalance. Now, neither science nor capital can bring back the departed souls.
Are human beings truely the most intelligent organism on Earth?? I have doubts about this or we would not have been digging our own graves. The ultimate truth is we come with nothing and we go with nothing. With these thoughts in my mind, I was hiking in the woods nearby and abruptly stopped by the Horse Chestnut trees. The beautiful flowers of the tree remind me of the classic song by Pete Seeger ‘Where have all the flowers gone?‘ The flowers on the trees, picked up by the maidens for their beloved now lied on their graves. It’s never too late and better late than never or nature has its own ways.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the flowers gone?
The girls have picked them every one.
Oh, When will you ever learn?
Oh, When will you ever learn?
Young girls
They’ve taken husbands every one.
Young men
They’re all in uniform.
Soldiers
They’ve gone to graveyards every one.
Graveyards
They’re covered with flowers every one.
Flowers
Young girls have picked them every one.
~By Pete Seeger
May mother nature be kind and may everyone stay blessed and healthy and have the strength to get over these testing times.
Thank you!!!
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