Write a biography of tree within 500 words
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I am a tree, tall and imposing, standing all alone near the campus of a temple. My life is ever so interesting as, I see a huge spectrum of society, funny gestures of people, and hear all kinds of conversation of the devotees who pass by me. I was not always so huge.
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Trees are one such boon bestowed on mankind. They form such an important part of our well-being and play such a significant role in our healthy living. But man’s lust for more and more of material gains; more and more of land for their agriculture and still more for their factories and industries has resulted in the depletion of this treasure of nature, on such a large scale. The entire eco-system stands disturbed and imbalanced; the mountains have lost their lustre of greenery; the slopes stand to stare naked; the clouds float away without pouring down; the fields lie parched and dried. All this because ‘Trees’ have been trimmed, tortured, and truncated.
In our country, our ancients had evolved a method to protect this bounty of nature. Trees used to be worshipped as a deity; there was divinity attached to them; the ‘Neem’, the ‘Peepal’, the ‘Banyan’, the ‘Mango’, the ‘Maulshree’ the ‘Kadamb’, the ‘Kachnar’, the ‘Tulsi’, the Amaltash’, the ‘Ashok’ all these were deified and therefore forbidden to be cut down or even truncated. The Indian psyche, prone to be religious and devout would worship these trees on different occasions and would rather plant more and more of them rather than cause any harm to them.
Lord Krishna, during his childhood, played and danced under the shady groves of the mango trees in Brindaban. Lord Rama, during his fourteen years of exile, lived in the forests, the grass and shrubs were used in the making of his huts in ‘Panchavati’; Lord Shiva has his abode in the Himalayas all covered with forests that is how the belief goes.
Similarly did the Pagans among Greeks in the Western World worshipped nature in its various forms.
These were the ways adopted by our wise ancients to save nature and to protect the ecological balance.Man of today calls himself a scientifically developed being and where science advances religion declines. Science relies on reason while religion relies on faith. And here arises the basic conflict. Man of today wants to achieve more and still, more whatever be the cost that he is required to pay for it even if he has to play foul with nature. This is the thinking which has led to the large scale devastation of forests.
Trees provide carbon dioxide as well as oxygen to the environment thus maintaining a balance and an equilibrium. They help in the soil formation and control soil erosion, thus saving the healthy minerals of the soil from being washed away. They impede the flush and flow of the rainwater gushing forth from the mountain slopes and thus while protecting the soil, they also save the rivers from getting unduly silted, which silting raises the level of their basins and make them overflow their banks resulting in floods.
Trees provide food and shelter to the fauna and serve as a natural habitat for them. They control landslides in the mountain region helping to save life and property. But very sad is the shape of things in our country at present. Forests are fast disappearing and this is causing very serious ecological consequences adversely affecting India’s climate, rainfall, and soil fertility. In many parts where the forest area has been depleted, the fertile topsoil built up over centuries has been washed away in one season. The regeneration of these lands will become a massive exercise which may well neigh be impossible.
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