happy earth day

Don't you think the Earth is a beautiful rangOli? with white snows and green forests with blue seas and orange sunsets with yellow lamps and indigo nights and with flowers of all hues thrown around? Its dots are the islands and its lines are the rivers and mountains Who drew this kaleidoscopic masterpiece? Nature - God - just happened? We know not! But what rich rangOlis are we going to bequeath to our children and grand-children and generations of their children and grand-children? Rivers of filth and oceans of poison? Nonexistent glaciers and dead coral reefs? Vanished species and unending stretches of hot deserts? Holes in the sky and drowned islands? The dead are buried in the earth If the Earth dies, where do we bury? Is our life-giving Earth destined to become one more lifeless wanderer in the vast universe? vandE mAtaram! J K Mohana Rao