Natural Beauty: Mountains are Picturesque Islands of the Sky
The people of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim call their respective regions Dev Bhoomi, which indicates their sacred attitude towards the Himalayas.
To cultivate respect for the mountainous environment, it is important to have a sense of natural purity and spiritual practice.
International Mountain Day was celebrated on December 11 this year amid unprecedented tragedy in the mountainous regions of the world, from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand.
By the way, this time this day was dedicated to encouraging eco-tourism, which is a new mantra of the same consumerism, in which there is no satisfaction without enjoying the full beauty of nature.
Natural beauty may be a nature-given aspect to nurture human creativity, but at the heart of the eco-tourism philosophy, this beauty is merely an object of material enjoyment.
And its consequences? Environmental pollution, social pollution, cultural pollution, moral pollution etc-etc. In such a situation, it is necessary to throw light on some unique aspects of mountains.
The glory of mountains on earth is incomparable. The mountains are unique examples of beauty, peace, austerity, spirituality, eco-yoga and creativity.
The mountains are an extraordinary environment of biological diversity, cultural diversity and linguistic diversity. Standing firmly vertical, the mountains defy the gravity of the Earth and peek out from the sky.
Mountains in every aspect of their uniqueness seem completely different from this world.
Mountains are picturesque islands of the sky.
He sends much happiness to the mainstream plain world. Mountains cover about 20 per cent of the earth, but more than 50 per cent of the people directly or indirectly depend on them.
Such is the immense importance of mountain ecosystems! If there were no mountains, there would be no rivers flowing tomorrow. What would have happened if there were no rivers, cannot even be imagined.
Among the mountains of the world, the Himalayas hold a distinctive image in the human mind: the youngest, tallest, most beautiful, panoramic and picturesque mountain range from a geological point of view.
The Himalayas are the largest natural source of ice outside the Earth’s two poles – north and south. That is why the Himalayas are often called the ‘Third Pole of the Earth. The Himalayan ranges are a microcosm in themselves.
The mountain produces the world’s tallest water towers, which are the natural source of clean drinking water for about two billion people, or about a quarter of the world’s population.
The Himalayas extend for 3,500 km over the whole or part of the eight countries, up to Myanmar in the east and Afghanistan in the west.
It is the source of the largest Asian river systems such as the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Salwen (Nu), the Mekong and the Yellow River (Huang), and is the source of water, ecological services, and livelihoods for the densely populated South Asia region. provides.
The people of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim call their respective regions Dev Bhoomi, which indicates their sacred attitude towards the Himalayas.
To cultivate respect for the mountainous environment, it is important to have a sense of natural purity and spiritual practice.
Input into the development programs in the mountains based on sacred and spiritual concepts is essential to restore the ecological balance in the mountain ecosystem.
The decade 2021-2030 is being observed as the United Nations Ecosystem Restoration Decade.
Incorporating the principles of purity, spirituality, eco-philosophy and renewable development, ecological regeneration of all the world’s mountains will be critical to the planet’s ecological balance and climate change mitigation.
Be it climate change or erosion of land and soil, mountains are the first sufferers in the world to suffer from adverse changes taking place in the world.
