All without fuss or strikes or demands for salary hikes! By and large, it can deal with troublemakers too, arming itself with poisons, thorns and prickles – but alas for it, its nuclear Armageddon comes in the shape of a power saw, or axe – which we are so quick to wield. They are truly atmanirbhar!Īll those planners who are so quick to decide to “chop it down!” need to spend some serious time beneath one of their proposed victims and think about what this entity has achieved in its lifetime (usually far more than they have!). Dead leaves decompose, providing nourishment for those that are starting life high up in the canopy. When growing thickly together as in rainforests, trees even make their own weather, producing clouds and downpours, thus recycling precious water every day. We may be able to facilitate the process of its growing – by giving it TLC – but we cannot manufacture a readymade tree in a factory, much less wood. True, it may take its time to grow but once it is up, it will provide for all other living creatures – not only food and drink (like langda mangoes and “tender” coconut water!) but also housing for a vast variety of living creatures, from ants to harpy eagles. From something the size of a full stop, using only minerals from the soil, air, sunlight and water, (and no microchips that have to be imported from China), this living structure grows, without a sound, making its own food, setting itself up on a solid structure of wood – which again, we can’t manufacture in any factory – and giving out a life-giving gas for the rest of all life on earth, besides providing a massive air-conditioning unit. But then, each and every tree, and each and every green plant is a monumental achievement of Mother Nature and something we’re so quick to forget.
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