People are getting isolated from trees, birds and forests

Adulated Danish author Hans Christian Andersen once said, "Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." These marvelous words refer to the importance of nature in our lives. We can make our lives more pleasant, substantial and sublime if we take a little time to look around to view the bounties nature has sprinkled around us like flowers, lakes, birds, trees, mountains and so on. We cannot return the favors we receive from nature. Rather, painfully true that, we continue to destroy natural resources for materialistic purposes. But we forget that nature is our ultimate friend, philosopher, guide and resort, to sound slightly similar to one of the greatest English romantic poets William Wordsworth.

Nature has instigated invincible poetic creativity from famed bards. The beauty of autumn spellbound John Keats while the verdure of spring sparked off an exhilarating approach to life in the poetry of PB Shelley. The snowflakes of acute winter moved Robert Frost leading to some fabulous poetic creations. The calmness and sanctity of nature in English villages charmed Thomas Hardy persuading him to illustrate the profound and exquisite spectacles of countryside in his books. There are many more examples like this referring to nature's power to ignite hidden literary talents from the pit of people's minds.

Weird it may sound though, I dream of days coming up in near future when exhausted, disillusioned urban dwellers will rush out of cities to reach for the green, tree-laden countryside to buy a piece of land there in the middle of a calm, noiseless hamlet far from urban din and bustle. Real estate companies will run colorful advertisements on TV channels promoting flats with a pond at the backyard, birds chirping on treetops at daybreak, fireflies flickering across meadows after sundown.

The current war-torn, maladroit world is craving for a message like this. The more we get closer to nature, the more it purifies our visions. To recall a few words from Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the pioneers of American Age of Enlightenment which glow with the caressing traits of nature, "There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite spaces, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Nature expands our thoughts and eliminates meagerness from our minds.