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Ananda Acharya on Trees, Birds, etc.
Give your affection for at least five minutes every day to trees and animals, to birds and fishes. You will soon discover in them a portion of your own life, sharing the wine of Brahman’s love. Think of them as manifestations of divine wisdom and treat them as members of humanity with full right to live and enjoy. The ruthless rate at which our cannibalistic civilized savages are felling forest trees and exterminating birds and animals and fish is beyond all bounds, and the children of men who will be born twenty or thirty years hence will have to learn the life history of birds and trees and animals from photographs and pictures. Remember, birds and animals are the friends of trees and trees are the friends of man, and when birds an animals and trees are gone out of our planet man will be friendless and the future human race will then receive the same gift of extinction which its reckless ancestors have offered to birds and trees and animals. Without forests, without birds, without animals, what will be left for poets to celebrate in their verse?
Swami Sri Ananda Acharya [1881-1945], Spiritual Talks (Hoshiarpur, India: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1957), p. 95