Jul 2005

Environment We don’t deserve trees because they are our last priority

The more I think about trees in Bangalore, the more I’m convinced we don’t deserve them. What is the use in growing them if we don’t know how to take care of them?
If they could talk, we’d all be jailed for trees abuse.
If a tree could speak, here’s what it would say: “Just kill me and get it over with.
Don’t torture me inch by inch, chopping my arms to make room for a building, hacking my feet to make way for a pavement, ripping my fingers off when they brush against

In his book, The Ideas That Con-quered the World, Michael Mandelbaum tells a story about a young girl who is eating dinner at a friend’s house and her friend’s mother asks her if she likes brussels sprouts. “Yes, of course,” the girl says. “I like brussels sprouts.” After dinner, though, the mother notices that the girl hasn’t eaten a single sprout. “I thought you liked brussels sprouts,” the mother said. “I do,” answered the girl, “but not enough to actually eat them.”