Dialogue - Conversation between a Tree and a Human Being

Tree: Hi, Human Being, How are you? I hope you are well.

Human Being: I am fine, thank you and how are you?

Tree: I’m not fine at all. I’m totally choked, burnt and very hungry.

Human Being: Choked, burnt and hungry? Why? How come?

Tree: Choked because of all the pollution, look at the number of cars, bikes and other vehicles on the road and all those fumes, I can’t breathe and look at me I’m drying away. And hungry because I haven’t been fed for years. And you people are so smart that you use the air conditioning to such a great extent that the heat generated is burning all the leaves and the trees are going bare. If the air conditioning use is reduced at night, the overall temperature will come down drastically. Do you even have a clue of what I’m saying? 

Human Being: I can understand you’re being choked, the number of cars and all other vehicular traffic included it’s really bad and the air is totally polluted. We human beings are so many that  it’s really getting crowded and there’s a big rush everywhere. What solutions do you suggest? 

Tree: To begin with, you need to stop cutting us. You can’t live without us. You will die of extreme pollution and suffocation, if we don’t produce fresh oxygen for you to breathe. That shade providing activity is no more important. Next you will have to reduce your use of air conditioning, reduce the use of your vehicles. I have noticed that even if you have to buy some groceries in your neighborhood you take you two wheeler, can’t you walk?? You have become so lazy. 

Human Being: Is that all?

Tree: Now comes that most important. I’m starving. I haven’t been fed for years. 

Human Being: You need food? Don’t you get it from the soil?

Tree: Exactly my friend, but you have built a concrete jungle and cut off a lot of city greenery and the soil does not contain any nutrition and you too are not compensating for the loss of nutrition. You need to feed us and replenish for the loss of food. 

Human Being: How should we human beings replenish your food and provide nutrition?

Tree: In the forest, ripe fruits and leaves fall on to the ground, and create manure and we get the required nourishment. Now you “smart” people consider the leaves as garbage and sweep them away and just water the ground near the trees and expect us to provide fresh oxygen. That’s not going to happen. Imagine a situation where you are living only on water. How long do you expect the live like that? You will have to feed us. It’s simple, all the natural waste generated in your homes is our food. Let me explain in simple terms. When you eat a banana and throw the peel in the dustbin, you are throwing away our food. In the dustbin, it will rot and stink, but if you bring it down and keep it near us it will convert into manure and we will get our required nourishment. All the peels of fruits and vegetable should be simply scattered around us and if your gardener is a little helpful and digs around he shuffle the ground and all these peels will mix up well and we’ll never be malnourished. Can you imagine the amount of garbage you will save and food you will provide us and we will be able to give you fresh air and you will not suffer. 

Human Being: We just throw all those peels into the garbage bin and they are collected by garbage trucks and just cause huge stinking dumping grounds. If we simply scattered them around the trees we would save ourselves by feeding you. I will spread this message to everyone and hope all will contribute towards reducing the use of air conditioners, vehicles and other pollution causing practice. I will also scatter all the natural waste on the ground so that some manure is created as food for the trees in our neighborhood. Thank you very much for this knowledge and I assure you of my commitment to help build a better environment.

One Family - One Tree