Do we have the right priorities ?

I agree with you, we are least bothered about all these essential natural gifts which are available without any price otherwise. I am lucky, I live in an area comparatively hassle free. 

Even if you are living in a busy metro city, if you have the mind, you can make time to spend time with nature instead of doing overtime to earn more money, go for a long walk instead of spending time window shopping at a mall or cooped up inside a cinema hall..

Natural jungles are converted into concrete jungles. Trees which protect the environment are cut indiscriminately. Garbage and industrial effluents are dumped into the rivers. Mother earth is raped and ravaged. All wrong priorities and preferences. We are signing on our own death warrant.

Human beings especially here in our country have no respect for anything that has no monetary value.When a wild animal ventures into city and is caught by the forest  dept , I see people poking sticks at it, throwing stones at it through the grill  and of course a picnic in open spaces means eating, drinking and making merry and litter the place with all that they have used for their enjoyment...We are a despicable lot !!!

usha manohar wrote:

Human beings especially here in our country have no respect for anything that has no monetary value.When a wild animal ventures into city and is caught by the forest  dept , I see people poking sticks at it, throwing stones at it through the grill  and of course a picnic in open spaces means eating, drinking and making merry and litter the place with all that they have used for their enjoyment...We are a despicable lot !!!

 

Absolutely. Greed makes us big destroyer of nature. Animals are caged and tortured. Parks have become  garbage cans. Animals are better than us.

suni51 wrote:

I agree with you, we are least bothered about all these essential natural gifts which are available without any price otherwise. I am lucky, I live in an area comparatively hassle free. 

 

@Usha - Thanks for your suggestions. In fact being a Nature Lover I try my best to do as much walking and traveling in peaceful areas as possible. Incidentally I live very close to Himalayas, so I get plenty of opportunities. Besides I leave no chance to visit walking areas and big parks wherever I go. There are plenty of natural spots close to my residence and one right in front of my home.

suni51 wrote:

suni51 wrote:

I agree with you, we are least bothered about all these essential natural gifts which are available without any price otherwise. I am lucky, I live in an area comparatively hassle free. 

 

@Usha - Thanks for your suggestions. In fact being a Nature Lover I try my best to do as much walking and traveling in peaceful areas as possible. Incidentally I live very close to Himalayas, so I get plenty of opportunities. Besides I leave no chance to visit walking areas and big parks wherever I go. There are plenty of natural spots close to my residence and one right in front of my home.

  

You are lucky to be living so close to nature and still are not cribbing about not living in a large city like some people do...I too live in a relatively small city and I have to go just 5 kms and I am in open spaces and hilly places where I can wander about as much as I want and my family too is very happy with this rather than live in larger city..

usha manohar wrote:

suni51 wrote:

suni51 wrote:

I agree with you, we are least bothered about all these essential natural gifts which are available without any price otherwise. I am lucky, I live in an area comparatively hassle free. 

 

@Usha - Thanks for your suggestions. In fact being a Nature Lover I try my best to do as much walking and traveling in peaceful areas as possible. Incidentally I live very close to Himalayas, so I get plenty of opportunities. Besides I leave no chance to visit walking areas and big parks wherever I go. There are plenty of natural spots close to my residence and one right in front of my home.

  

You are lucky to be living so close to nature and still are not cribbing about not living in a large city like some people do...I too live in a relatively small city and I have to go just 5 kms and I am in open spaces and hilly places where I can wander about as much as I want and my family too is very happy with this rather than live in larger city..

 

In fact I have lived in metros for decades so I finally decided to stay back in my hometown although not at my ancestral' home but in a colony located at Delhi Dehradun Highway 10 km away from main city. Cities like Mussori, Dehradun, Haridwar, Shimla, Nainital are well within 2-4 hours' drive from my place and I leave no chance to visit one or the other place according to weather. Delhi is also within an hour's drive from my place. And yes, I have visited your city several times and your entire area including Coorg and places like Kodachadri during my posting at Bangalore.

We are consciously destroying nature and everything beautiful in it. It is a terrific truth that we are least bothered about the future of coming generations. We should be ready to face the reality; otherwise we would have to stand embarrassed in front of the fusillades of questions from the coming generations about a sustainable world.    

suni51 wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

suni51 wrote:

suni51 wrote:

I agree with you, we are least bothered about all these essential natural gifts which are available without any price otherwise. I am lucky, I live in an area comparatively hassle free. 

 

@Usha - Thanks for your suggestions. In fact being a Nature Lover I try my best to do as much walking and traveling in peaceful areas as possible. Incidentally I live very close to Himalayas, so I get plenty of opportunities. Besides I leave no chance to visit walking areas and big parks wherever I go. There are plenty of natural spots close to my residence and one right in front of my home.

  

You are lucky to be living so close to nature and still are not cribbing about not living in a large city like some people do...I too live in a relatively small city and I have to go just 5 kms and I am in open spaces and hilly places where I can wander about as much as I want and my family too is very happy with this rather than live in larger city..

 

In fact I have lived in metros for decades so I finally decided to stay back in my hometown although not at my ancestral' home but in a colony located at Delhi Dehradun Highway 10 km away from main city. Cities like Mussori, Dehradun, Haridwar, Shimla, Nainital are well within 2-4 hours' drive from my place and I leave no chance to visit one or the other place according to weather. Delhi is also within an hour's drive from my place. And yes, I have visited your city several times and your entire area including Coorg and places like Kodachadri during my posting at Bangalore.

We visited Madikeri(coorg) last month and I am posting a picture I took of Brahmagiri mountains( western ghats) from TalaKaveri , birth place of Kaveri...It is so serene and beautiful that time stands still when you are up there ..

Pure evil is man who seeks to enslave Mother Earth destroy all her gifts she's given pure of heart. We terrorize animals before we kill them. Use chemical warfare to murder helpful creatures like bees. So self absorbed and lazy to work with nature. Every living organism has purpose it just seems like ours is yes a thinking ugly all consuming virus.

So the human is being punished by Mother Nature constantly. Look at the increased number of land slides, earthquakes and other natural calamities of late.

"Jaisa Karni,Waisa Bharni."

Remember, Newton's third law of motion. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite Reaction."

A man who rapes in real life, can get away by hood winking the law. But anyone who rapes the Mother Earth cannot get away from the vigilant eyes of the nature. This is the truth.

As Einstein once said, look deep into nature and you will understand, everything better. Absolutely, there is no heaven on earth but one can find pieces of it while turning into natural surroundings. 

But these natural surroundings are detroyed and demolished by the greedy humans, NOT KNOWING THAT HE IS DRILLING A HOLE IN THE PLATE ENDOWED BY NATURE.

I remember when I was a student we had outdoor activities as a part of our syllabus.We had gardening, and a few walking tours to nearby places which made you aware of nature ...Taking todays scenario, I know that in today's highly competitive world there is no time for any of this.The syllabus is too lengthy and students go to tuition after classes, even during weekends..

As it is the student is burdened with truck loads of books in bis back pack. Where can they find to see and walk through the nature? I pity them seeing them carrying those burdens.Until recently I used to take my students whom I used to teach Art, I was taking them to the out doors for On the spot sketching. I never taught them Art sitting in the cozy comforts of my drawing room.

Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes, who becomes alive when they are both alone, are world's greatest philosophers in my opinion. He has rightly expressed the irony of life that we adults go through, we do not appreciate the things that are really good for us, such as nature and natural beauty. And the effects are there for us all to see! That is why even though I live in a city that even though cosmopolitan, is blessed with hilly ranges surrounding it. So I make it a point to take my son as often as I can to the hills close by and teach him how to appreciate simple things in nature.

@ Kalyani

We have a false notion and look down  whatever that comes free. More complicated things look  mysterious to us. We will be awe struck and hold them in high esteem.

I appreciate your efforts of making your son aware of the beautiful nature. This awareness in the youngsters go a long way in future.You are lucky to have natural surroundings. Though I'm not lucky in this regard, I make it a point to walk nearby natural regions, where you get a bounty of nature every morning, though it's a time taking process, I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

Familiarizing a child with nature will make him a lifelong friend of nature. After all child is the father of man. More parents should show children outside nature rather than inside of shopping malls.