DepEd launches 'Puno ng Bayan'
“Blessed is the house upon whose walls the shade of an old tree gently fall”. This quotation is from Ruskin Bond. In this adage the speaker shares the thoughts of his grandmother who was of the opinion that the house that has trees around is blessed. For this purpose he planted a tree which is six months old and is growing fast. He believes that in six years time th e tree would grow and give shade so that his house will also be blessed. What is the state of the world without the trees? Barren and brown, unblessed and uninhabited. Trees add color and breath to ecosystem. It is the earth’s source of life. Metaphorically, the trees are the songs of God and the flowers are His laughter. Trees in the modern world are sometimes forgotten and neglected. Humans overuse the demand for trees but do not plan to replace what they had consumed. What will our future become if all the trees of the present would soon vanish in the future because of human’s over consumption and wanton destruction