Water is divine. Good. 10 million take bath on a single day and wash their clothes off and hundreds of dead bodies thrown into the river. Thousands of priests perform rituals involving oil and people love to throw plastic and polythene in to the river. Thousands of Chemical industries and factories discharge untreated effluents into the river. Thousands of small and big towns drain their drainage directly into the river. Millions of acres of paddy fields which are fertile with fertilizers drain the excess water again into the same Ganga. Thousands of boats and small ships discharge waste and oil slicks into the same Ganga. Can any one save this water? Think deep before you enter into the water deep.
| Famous Quotes About Ganga |
Reverence of Ganga "The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga." - Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India "The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future." - Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India "A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him." - Ramakrishna Paramhansa "I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares." - Alexander Duff "I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganga – astronomy, astrology, spiritualism, etc. It is very important to note that some 2500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganga to learn geometry."- Francis M. Voltaire "O Ganga, strange are your ways, you fill up the sea but dry up Bhavsagar – the sea of troubles of worldly life." - Ratnakar, Hindi poet "The sacred river Ganges in India is one of the most enduring images of the country." - Daniel Lak "The land where the Ganges does not flow is likened in a hymn to the sky without the sun, a home without a lamp, a Brahmin without the Veda." - Jean Tavernier, Travels in India Reverence for Water "A river sings a holy song conveying the mysterious truth that we are a river and if we are ignorant of this natural law, we are lost." - Thomas Moore "I do not know about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and untractable." - T.S. Eliot "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans." - Jacques Cousteau, Oceanographer "Water is the driver of Nature. When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come." - Leonardo da Vinci "A man of wisdom delights in water." - Confucius "Water is the critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land." - Luna Leopold, Hydrologist "Jal bahule srustinasa, jalabihune srustinasa." - "Too much or too little water destroys creation." - Oriya proverb "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." - Loren Eiseley "Whenever you drink the water, remember the spring." - Chinese proverb "The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders." - Isaac Waltonta "Next to blood relationships, come water relationships." - Stanley Crawford Reverence for Nature "Let the mountains talk, let the rivers run. Once more and forever." - David Brower "The Mississipi, the Ganges, and the Nile...the Rocky Mountains, the Himalaya, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world." - Henry David Thoreau |
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