It is natural for any human to evade from appreciating nature! Though at some point of time or the other, one will definitely do it! For some, it comes soon, but for many it only comes late.
What I want to stress here is, since everyone is a part of nature, everyone must also know to appreciate it. It costs nothing. We must learn to distinguish between the terms “Natural” and “Artificial”. When we have distinguished between the two, half the job is over! “Waterfalls” is natural whereas a Fountain is artificial [repeated line] Coconut water is natural, Pepsi is artificial, Moon is natural, Sputnik is artificial.
Also, any natural thing has got better advantages over Artificial or I could also say Artificial things are dangerous sometimes [depends]. Any natural process in this world takes place from a higher potential to a lower potential. And therefore all natural creations on this world take place in a smooth way. Nature does not allow any artificial events to happen just because it is nature.
And when humans try to do any artificial creations or any act against nature, they spend a lot of energy. Energy is required only because it is against nature. Like, planting a tree [without any energy] and cutting down a tree to pieces [with so much of energy]. For dropping an object you need not spend energy, but for lifting it you ought to! That’s the law of nature!
Nature turns things at higher potential to lower potential to maintain a balance, but foolish humans try to turn things upside down! There was recent news saying that the American Government has installed artificial waterfalls. It is installed in many rivers beds. What happens there is water is pumped from the river to a tank placed at great height! Great height! Great Height! Great height of foolishness! And then water is again made to fall from that height back to the same river. Though they need not spend energy for making water fall from that height, they need to spend power to make water go up! They spend a few Kilojoules energy each minute and when you convert that to dollars, it is a big sum!
Nature knows how to take care of us, provided we take care of it. We are supposed to enjoy nature and not disturb it! Some of the nature lovers articles reveal that they become calm and composed after having a look at a beautiful scenery. They say there is a drastic change in the human brain activities after it.
Some of the best scenes I witnessed and that I cannot forget -
i) View of icy mountains in Badrinath that changed its colour to gold because of the reflection of the sunlight
ii) View of Srirangam Rajagopuram from other end of Kaveri River
iii) View of the river Bhagirathi/Alakananda from the hills at a great height
Lord Krishna does not show any interest to things that are not in its usual form. He likes butter but not buttermilk! “Aaratha vennai vizhingi, Arigiruntha moraar kudam orutti mun kidantha thamathe!” It says, he consumes a lot of butter, wheras all the buttermilk pots are made to roll all over the floor!
Let’s salute nature. Let’s appreciate nature.
- ∫.∫rikrishnan
