Ramblings on nature
Nature and Urbanization
A short musing
Nature has a magnetic way of arresting attention.
Are you a city dweller like me? Then you know what I mean by ‘nature’.
It’s those elusive clumps of soothing greens and blues that the cemented landscapes seem to have taken over. It diverts your attention from ceaseless chatter inside your head. Makes you stare around. You find yourself taking lungfuls of air and feeling light. Your shoulders drop and relax on cue.
There’s a peculiar claustrophobic feeling rampant in the smoggy, dusty lanes of the uber-modern city. I’m weary of it.
The serenity that I crave, is easily afforded in nature. It’s not always soaring mountains or frothing rivers or boundless oceans etc. Most of the time it’s a nook of a garden.
My mom tells me she used to skip school to go sowing paddy in the adjacent fields, and pick wild berries in the forest with her siblings, for fun. Those fields and forests are now housing colonies.
I remember watching pink Gangetic dolphins swimming by the ship dock where my father and his colleagues used to fish during the weekends. Those are long gone now. Lots of plastic instead.
Urbanization.
