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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
                                                                                       -- Pablo Neruda

I read this quote in one of the news paper today. There were two thoughts that followed

1. Today, the man has enough power to not just to cut all flower, but also to stop spring from coming! With our thoughtless acts, we have caused climate change. In my mother tongue, Malayalam, poet ("kavi") also takes the meaning "scholar". We are now beyond the traditional wisdom of scholars of past ;).

2. Well, we have stopped the spring. However, there are greater powers out there for whom our spring is nothing but a bunch of flowers. When those powers are set in action, spring will come no matter, how many flowers we pluck, probably even plucking us away in that cleansing process!

Well, lets hope that the poet is correct and that the spring will come one day. After all, change is the only constant in this universe and it will be foolish to think that our action are final!