www=world wild way

 Do you love watching 'Animal Planet'? Do you like the FB groups about the various safaris? Is it the case that if you see a pic or a video about any form of wild life, birds, animals, trees, you cannot scroll by? If your answer to any or all of these questions is a 'yes', here is a metaphorical handshake.

I love the wild life with its unique sights, sounds, scents, and silences. In my opinion, however, wild life does not merely mean the lions, the tigers, the elephants, the polar bears, and all the other exotic fauna. Sure they matter a lot. In my opinion, however, equally important is the flora in the wilderness. 

Let me give you an example to prove my point. If the bear is to survive, honey in the beehives is important. For a beehive to thrive, bees would require certain plants, specific trees with their unique flowers. See how the wild life is a life cycle, where the whole includes every part, and each part feeds in to the larger whole. No wonder, in the olden days, rishis preferred teaching and meditating in the wilderness!

It is this symbiotic communion, total rapport, fraternal inter-dependence with a truly social feel that binds the wild life together, right? Hence, earlier, human beings used to maintain 'devrai', a sacred space dedicated to the wild life every which way. Unfortunately, however, after destroying the primeval hinterlands,  human habitats are mostly mere jungles, nasty, mean, brutish in its total 'i, me, my' vacantness. No wonder, an Emerson, a Thoreau preferred the 'wanopnishad', the sacred praise dedicated to the forests, away from the non-/in-human jungles, called cities, contaminated every which way.

If we are to survive, we have to follow the www. No, no, not merely the 'world wide web', but the 'world wild way' as well. Let us preserve, conserve, and deserve a 'wild'er tomorrow! Happy World Wild Life Day!

Pratima@ How to make that jungle called human habitat in to a fantastic forest; that is the question!

Oh, yes, we hardly know enough about that wilderness called the seas and the oceans where actually once upon a time long long long long ago, life began. Let us not make the seabeds in to our 'waste'-lands!