Mahatma Gandhi as an Environment Conservator!

Mahatma Gandhi is known as a non violent freedom fighter but we hardly see him as an environment conservator. He had a far sighted approach in every thing he said, he could even visualized the effect of over exploitation of the natural resources and coined this statement in 1909, which holds true in today’s context.

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“We may utilize the gifts of Nature just as we choose, but in Her books, the debits are always equal to the credits.”

Today, world is facing global warming and climate change, which is the consequence of over exploitation of our natural resources. It has made the climate difficult even for the human species, most adoptable animal of all, to survive. It will lead to extinction some the tropical insects, melting of the glacier at such high rate will lead to drying of some great rivers forever and rise in the sea level will reduce available land for all terrestrial animals and plants.
Now it is the time that we get back to the century old statement and follow it before it is too late.
Let me share some more quotes on nature from the great man:

“This little globe of ours is not a toy of yesterday.”

“I refuse to buy from anybody anything, however nice or beautiful, if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.”

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."

"Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns"