When this is the time to recall all who have been helping us live well, I take this opportunity to go beyond just humans. It is amazing that our best friend is totally blind, nourishes us day in and day out and we do not care much for it. It is the Earth Worm.
It constantly digs soil, eats dead plant material, mixes air and nutrient in soil and thus a free tiller cum decomposer for us. The end result is a virtuous cycle of more plant materials on that rich soil and more earth worms. As Wikipedia mentions "Richly organic topsoil populations of earthworms are much higher – averaging 500 worms m−2 and up to 400 gm−2 – such that, for the 7 billion of us, each person alive today has support of 7 million earthworms."
How can we thank this best friend of mankind (and plant and animals)? By less polluting our soil (and water): by using less of inorganic fertilizers and toxic pesticides and promoting more of organic fertilizers and natural pesticides. So simple but so effective. It will provide us better organic food, richer fertile soil and sustainable world. As someone has pointed out there are trillions of planets, but there is not a known 2nd one livable like our earth. So handle with care this mother earth and cherish its blessings. Before you throw the next toxic waste, think twice, it will come back to us in some form or other. Actually we will have to think even before, while procuring that toxic substance. Before we use chemicals as an option, be it
- those cosmetics we use for our makeup
- paints for walls on houses
- fertilizers for our garden
- urea for our farmland
- that shiny color on our dress/car
- that sweet aroma on our soap
- that artificial flavor in our noodle
let us remember all those friends and families who have been tortured with painful diseases as its effect and also remember it may be us too.
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