Even after
all this time,
the sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens
with a love like that.
It lights
the whole sky.
(Hafiz)
Sun, do you not know.
You don't only light the whole sky,
You give life to all
The plants take from you
and they make food for us!
They give us their wood for our fire and homes
They give us shelther
They make the air clean
They decorate our gardens and put a cheer on our face.
The plants also give to us so freely,
because they know their unending source.
So let us be gentle with the earth
They owe us nothing
but we owe them everything
"The forest habitat provides us with goods and services for free, as they receive solar energy from the sun, free of charge and they convert it to carbon." - paraphrased from Prof. Chou Loke Ming's SSS1207 lecture - The importance of Biodiversity in Singapore's context.
"Tree is a living symbol of boundless benevolence. It does not demand from anybody for its own nourishment. It goes on giving enormous quantities of useful materials to the world. Not only this but it goes on giving shade to a woodcutter who has come to cut it." (Lord Buddha)
There's so much we can actually learn from nature. We don't just receive, we give as well. The Sun must be the true altruist. Always giving, always burning.
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I'd like to share this (long) quote with you.
"The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
Aldo Leopold
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