“What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?“

-William H Davies wrote these very famous lines, perhaps keeping in mind the inability of men to appreciate Nature. It is a fact that in today’s fast-paced life we often forget to stand and stare at Nature and appreciate its beauty. Well… these words sounds clichéd, don’t they? Perhaps yes, because these are pretty oft-repeated worries that we have been reading on for years now. But how many of us really think about it and more importantly, do something about it? Nature is a wonderful blessing given to us by God. But it is really sad to find that nowadays Nature has become a topic for discussion and debates rather than a thing to enjoy and cherish.

To begin with, we see the newspapers and news bulletins flooded with alarming reports on changes in Nature. Today, even the most ignorant person on the planet would still understand the gravity of these two words – Global Warming. And rightly so, because the effects of global warming have already begun to reach us. The climate change and holes in Ozone layer are only a few glimpses of the bigger blow which is going to strike us. And if we are to escape this gruesome reality, then something has to be done and it has to be done NOW! And so it is about time we stop passing the buck and start acting.

Conservation of Nature is indeed the need of the hour. It may may sound an uphill task but it is certainly not impossible. I have always felt that preserving Nature and working for a “greener” tomorrow is not that difficult at all, especially if we start adopting the principle of ‘Charity begins at home.’ Yes! if each one of us start doing our bit, then this massive mission of saving our enviornment will not be difficult to combat. A small initiative is all that is required. It could be as simple a thing as switching off the lights when not in use or using recycled paper – every effort counts. And if we look at the benefits that we are going to reap out of our such small efforts then it is no big deal at all, right?

So let us all join hands and pledge not to make this a lost cause. Let Nature get back its lost glory. And let us feel proud for doing our bit in saving the beauty of this beautiful world that we live in. . .