Comments on: Trees at pointReturn

By: Windrider

Windrider — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:52:13 +0000

Hi DV,

I’m excited by your new project. It appears you’ve discovered…or at least are in the process of discovering…the spiritual strength of trees. They are, without a doubt, one of the strongest objects on this planet to ground a person when life is getting out of hand. They are alive with power. Spiritual…mystical…and magickal…they possess the wisdom of The Old Ones, and whisper this knowledge through their leaves to anyone who is in tune with the Earth. As always…I admire and applaud your effort to make this world a little better place for those who walk the path behind you. Well done, my friend. May the Gods be with you.

By: Ragunath

Ragunath — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:00:40 +0000

This was a heartening read. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration.

We are in the process of planting 8000 trees in our 10 acres. I found the book ‘Reaching for the Sun’ by John King extremely useful.

Ragunath@greenlocal

By: Marupa

Marupa — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:33:34 +0000

Hi DV,

I have been reading your blog for a while and your description of pointreturn brings it alive in front of our eyes. Publishing is diff business. Farming is equally tough for an urban convert. doing both at the same time and that too from a wasteland is commendable.

Well done. I shall visit pointreturn when i visit chennai next vacation.

Best
Ram, London.

By: dv

dv — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:22:09 +0000

dear sujatha…
like you say, drumstick and curry leaf plants are ‘common’ household plants. i thought it trivial to list them. yes, they too are growing at pR
-dv

By: sujatha

sujatha — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:43:20 +0000

dear sir,
though i rarely write to you,i eagerly wait for your articles and reading them always gives me a lot of peace and happiness.as one of the readers said,when i didnt find a new article for quite sometime,i.too.was starting to worry about your health.so i was both relieved and happy to see the new article.
in the place,i stayed earlier,i was blessed to have a garden with many trees.the sun shining through the fresh green leaves,the birds chirping around them,the gentle breeze with the leaves rustling are sights and sounds i can never forget.i have spent so many blissful moments just gazing at all this.apart from this ,the trees also benefited me monetarily because they helped me cut down my electricity costs.my bedroom was surrounded by trees and they kept the room so cool that very often ,in the middle of the night,i had to switch off even the fan - this,when all my neighbours and friends had to use ACs to keep them cool.
just out of curiosity,i would like to know why you didnt plant curry leaves trees and drumstick trees - 2 common trees in south india.
i hope i can visit point return when i visit chennai in july/aug.
with warm regards,
sujatha

By: malyada

malyada — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:55:43 +0000

Its been an extremely happy read. I myself come from a near-desert region, and the sight of a big green tree is one of the happiest sights in life.
I will make my way to pointreturn some day.
Thanks

By: rakeshravi

rakeshravi — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:14:27 +0000

Dear shridharan ji,
it was an end of long waiting, which was giving rise to some fear and suspicion about how things were going at point return and i had also started to worry about your health.
i have gone through the letter in one breath, thank you. i missed the pictures of our trees grove, may be next time you will post some recent pictures of new growth and development.
list of trees and their description with net images was great.too much to learn.
if ever i come to tamilnadu to come to pointreturn will be like pilgrimage. why do you not allow any work on Sunday, knowing that it may lot easier for volunteers to contribute on sunday .
bye for now, i have to go through the list of trees and learn to recognize them.
take care of your health.
bye
rakesh ravi