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Mother Earth

Last Saturday I planted a tree.
A pine tree it was, around 12 years old.
As I was preparing the piece where it would be planted,
I felt a strong connection with Mother Earth.

This small act of 20 minutes while thinking about how this tree would grow in its new place and finally "breathe", when it's been imprisoned for 12 years in a small flowerpot, gave me so much satisfaction.

Once finished, images of destruction came to my mind.

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Nature is a beast sometimes, it's true,
but Man is even more savage:

How easy it is to cut down an 80-year-old tree
"because its falling leaves are littering our backyard".

How simple it is to raid a forest using a bulldozer
"to clear the view".

How fast we can pollute a nearby river
"to keep our house/factory clean".

How can we ever regain what we destroyed?
We can't...

All the beautiful mountains that we transformed into ugly buildings.
All the water that we polluted.
All the forests "evaporated".
All the extinct species.
Then...
All of us.


This is far from being an alarm, it's more of a cry
during my "semi-mourning" for our dear Mother Earth.

We are slowly dying with Her.
For any possible resurrection, believing is not enough.
Start acting.

6 comments:

  1. This is so true

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  2. It isn't savagery. It is pure selfishness.
    And I'll quote Carl Sagan: "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

    niheyetna wakhime.

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  3. It is Nsrn...
    Thank you for your quote :)
    So, are you gonna act?

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  4. I'm proud of you son, and Mother Earth is proud of you too, and Mother Mary Queen of Earth and Heaven loves u because you love and care about this beautiful present of God : THE EARTH.

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  5. Mother Earth is getting her revenge slowly and one day every piece of paper we threw without recycling and every tree we cut down without thinking will laugh at our rotten bodies swallowed by a tsunami.

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  6. Anonymous12/4/11 03:29

    rana .... CREEPY !! :S
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    ...late better then never ! :)

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