Trees! Oh do we realize how much they are a part of our human psyche! Imagine a long road with large trees like protectors holding us in their embrace. Shade, fruit, medicine and oxygen. And we cut them down sometimes for slight discomforts.
India and Indian cities are being inexorably being converted into mini deserts. If a straight road is to be built atleast a few hundred trees are brought down. Of course then the 'Forest Department' plants some - normally thin twigs which die out in the summer heat. It seems there are no horticulturists and botanists in India - its not a fashionable profession to follow. And yes, we now have the date palms in place of large trees. The decorative kind.
It takes some trees thirty to forty years to grow. I have seen earlier shady roads replacing their trees with buildings. Would it be a great loss to have a little smaller house and a large tree shading it?
Like the legendary Kalidas, we are chopping the very branch on which we sit.
All cities should take a leaf from Singapore and the way it protects its green cover. Roads are a pleasure to walk on; apart from the convenience and the shopping malls it has large gardens, wetland conservation and trees lining almost every street large or small.
A treeless world is a bleak world, a hot world and a polluted world.
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India and Indian cities are being inexorably being converted into mini deserts. If a straight road is to be built atleast a few hundred trees are brought down. Of course then the 'Forest Department' plants some - normally thin twigs which die out in the summer heat. It seems there are no horticulturists and botanists in India - its not a fashionable profession to follow. And yes, we now have the date palms in place of large trees. The decorative kind.
It takes some trees thirty to forty years to grow. I have seen earlier shady roads replacing their trees with buildings. Would it be a great loss to have a little smaller house and a large tree shading it?
Like the legendary Kalidas, we are chopping the very branch on which we sit.
All cities should take a leaf from Singapore and the way it protects its green cover. Roads are a pleasure to walk on; apart from the convenience and the shopping malls it has large gardens, wetland conservation and trees lining almost every street large or small.
A treeless world is a bleak world, a hot world and a polluted world.
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