Earthday 2013

Earthday 2013

I am very fortunate and grateful that I still live in an environment where I can look outside my window and see green grasses and trees blowing in the wind and hear birds singing. Not everyone is so fortunate. This is the environment that calms the soul,and refreshes the mind and we are in danger in much of the world in losing this due to the indifference of not only businesses and large corporations but of average people as well.

I try to do my bit to help by composting , recycling and fully utilizing our limited resources but you can see by just looking around how much trash is generated, how much water is wasted, how natural ways like solar and wind are not being fully used, how much the environment needs help of everyday people.

I shudder as I drive pass a piece of land that was once an open space and see the machines and construction stakes being placed.More buildings, more people , more cars, more dirty air= less trees, less grass, less nature.

Poor earth. 

Pray for change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu86OP-O3mY 

Joni Mitchell one of the great folk singer of the 70s said it best,in her song, Big Yellow taxi. Hear it here on You-tube.

Here are the lyrics.

"Big Yellow Taxi" Lyrics

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone—
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot!

They took all the trees,
Put 'em in a tree museum;
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone—
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot!

Hey farmer, farmer,
Put away the DDT now;
Give me spots on my apples,
But leave me the birds and the bees—
Please!
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone—
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot!