Green Memories

                                    Sam's pen.    We all love travelling. Most of us are thrilled with the idea of exploring distant and unknown places. During the beginning of modern era, many famous navigators went out from their homes to explore the new lands. Among them Columbus, Vasco Da Gama, Captain Cook, and many others became legends. They travelled to discover about new lands; to acquire new knowledge. Do you know many animals are similarly fond of travelling long distances like us? But their travel is not related to enjoying aesthetic scenery of new habitats or to experience new habits. Their travelling is for their biological needs, to survive in this planet. Generally animals go for travelling to avoid unfavourable weathers, in search of food, for breeding, or to give protection to their next generation. Such type of travelling by animals is called animal migration. Man...

  Green thought Changing modern lifestyle is the only option to restore the balance in Nature. We cannot go back to the past. We cannot just click the undo button. So what can we do now? How can we restore the balance in nature? It is not possible for us to rewind back to the ancient times. And we cannot think about the nature without human too. The only way is to use our resource to mend our damages. We cannot change our modern lifestyle. But we can use it in planned way and use science and technology to restore the nature and to rectify our mistakes. Modern lifestyle doesn’t mean clearing out forests for constructing cities and roads; it doesn’t mean raising dams in an unplanned way; it doesn’t mean clearing out forest areas to grow monoculture plantation. Modern lifestyle means fulfilling our debt without harming our Nature. We can fulfil the debt by planting 10 trees, if one is cut down; planning our dams wisely; grow indigenous diverse plantation.   We all know the ...