By Richard St. Barbe Baker The old Maoris were friends of the forest, and whenever they wanted to cut down a tree they used to ask it's permission first, and then cover up the stump with foliage so as to protect the inlying spirit. Throughout the greatest part of the island, the Children of Tane,…Read more Extract from Tree Lore
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How do plastic bottles damage the environment?
Because of the transporting and packaging involved, bottled water has a much higher carbon footprint per litre than tap water – more than 300 times the CO2 emissions per litre in the case of some imported brands. Thames Water calculates that a litre of its tap water accounts for 0.0003kg of CO2. Fossil fuels are…Read more How do plastic bottles damage the environment?
Prophet Muhammad: Horses are a reward…
Horses are beautiful creatures, which have been instrumental in Human history, for peoples and nations all around the world. To the Arabs and Muslims, they were a blessed gift of Allah SWT, which permitted them swift mobility and the ability to traverse vast distances, that would have been difficult by any other means available, up…Read more Prophet Muhammad: Horses are a reward…
At The Gates Of The Forest
"...who is it that has created the heavens and the earth, and sends down for you [life-giving] water from the skies? For it is by this means that We cause gardens of shining beauty to grow - [whereas] it is not in your power to cause [even one single of] its trees to grow! Could…Read more At The Gates Of The Forest
Money may buy food, but it didn’t grow it.
"And We send down from the skies water rich in blessings, and cause thereby gardens to grow, and fields of grain," ~ Holy Qur'an 50:9 (M. Asad) "The photo in this post was reportedly taken 617m in the air over rice fields in Hanoi, Vietnam. A nation that produces an estimated 42.3 million tons of…Read more Money may buy food, but it didn’t grow it.
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 