Serene spaces.

Some of the most serene spaces I know are always in natural settings.Nature must be giving serenity to everyone.Otherwise why even the most posh hotels have their exclusive spaces surrounded with greenery.So ,green is the colour of peace.You nestle in the lap of mother earth and you are at peace.Most of the tours that are favored are tours that take you away from this hot and concrete structured earth.The day man discovered concrete his peace floundered I think.

I have gone with my friend when working at an office nestling in the western ghats and surrounded by coffee plantations to a simple street called Galibeedu where there are innumerable glow worms float with the lights all aglow at night.Since night buses are less there ,we had to return after being there for a while.But we did see them all aglow.

The same friend was also like me finding peace amidst nature.So we used to walk amidst the hills in the evening ,though the villagers used to gape at us wandering around.In february the mist used to be so thick that one will not be able to see two feet ahead.I used to get milk by going in this mist and I feel that chillness even now.Fresh and beautiful chill it was.Scented with the wooden musk from the trees.

Living in a city now, Iam a little fortunate in having a street where the trees are not cut away by the residents and now it flowers yellow and like a
carpet ,the blooms lie soft at your feet.Also a gentle breeze blows always when the windows are open.You do see some birds too unlike in other places around the city.By doing away with planting friut trees we did away with birds too.To eat the friuts the birds would have come at least.

I think when planting trees on roads the city planners should take into account the depth at which the trees had to be planted so that when the tree grows big it will have enough depth to stand on.Falling of trees can be avoided by such forethought.Also the planting should be at the other side of the street where the electricity wires are not overhead.This will prevent work to the electricity board which has to cut and maitain the trees.

More and more of airconditioners might perhaps make a generation that might not know natural breeze,and I shudder at this thought.Already city children do not know from where rice grains come,unless a studious one questions the teacher and an intelligent and caring teacher does show an experiment growing rice on a pot atleast.

I have also come across some wide meadows that roll green spaces for some miles.Seeing some hills denuded and devoid of trees and full of stunted growth I feel where have all the people gone?Have there ever been people living at these places?Some places does look as though people were living at those places earlier.I have heard that a civilisation dies when a river dries up.Yes, I can imagine that.So the remedy is to grow greenery wherever such things are possible and try to go around a tree instead of making a way by cutting it down.Will you?