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.
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!
