First bloom!

A plant has leaves and flowers. Sometimes the leaves are more and flowers are less. It can be vice versa as well. 

We expect flowering plants and fruit bearing trees to give us their produce in due season. We plant with that expectation. 

Yesterday, a farmer told me that that we often treat plants and trees as a source of income. He agonised over it. His opinion was that even if the plants do not give us flowers or fruits for us to sell to earn an income, they give us oxygen, sustain the bird life and give us shade and allow the wind to be moderated. 

This is ancient wisdom, which we in modern times have ignored. Late Laurie Baker (1917-2007) a British origin  architect, who lived in Trivandrum used to say that his policy was not to cut trees when a house had to be designed and built. He incorporated the trees in some way into the design of the house. His view was that the trees sustain human lives.  He often insisted that every house built would have a few trees around it, which was a condition for him to agree to design the house.

We live in a dedicate balance between humans and nature! I wish we value plants and trees beyond our utilitarian purpose. In the Genesis story of creation, the garden of Eden was as important as the two people that God created, Adam and Eve!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)