Bulletin d'informations - World Association of Soil and Water ...

Manage water, manage the watersheds
Forests, pastures and conservation farming
No flooding of fields, subsidize micro-irrigation;
Clean and safe water to drink -- the first priority
Agriculture, housing, industry are the next;
Treat the sewage, treat the industrial effluents
Water is the boon water can be the bane
● Prof. Vir Singh’s ‘The Planet Earth’ verse now in German
Prof. Vir Singh’s love in writing articles and verses has brought several works to entertain our members. Recently,
one of his several verses, The Planet Earth, has attracted attention of a German academic, Mr Peter E. Rücker
(peter.e.rue cker@web.de), so he had translated it to his language. Following is part of the translated version (Part
2), comparing with the original in English. The verse in full-length will be posted on our website.
English
Ed.: There is an explanation of the quote as follows:
The Planet Earth
The above quotation is very apt and describes
Was borne
superbly the ongoing struggle of the small isolated
To give birth to my mother,
rural communities to have their voice and concerns
My mother was borne
heard.
To give birth to me.
Mother Earth has brought the Evolution
“We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth
Down to Earth –
that its flesh is the soil.” - Leonardo da Vinci
The Evolution of eternity.
German
Geboren wardst du, Planet Erde,
Um Leben zu spenden für meine Mutter.
Geboren wardst du, meine Mutter,
Um Leben zu spenden für mich selbst.
Mutter Erde, du hast Entwicklung
Herabgebracht auf unsere Erde –
Die Entwicklung der Endlosigkeit.
● A Book of Verse by Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)
A book of verse,
underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of
bread - and thou
Beside me singing in the
wilderness -
Ah, wilderness were
paradise enow!
Mots de Sagesse
(de F. X. Browne Newsletter,
www.fxbrowne.com/html/newsletters/_2009/news_m
ar09.htm, Numéro de Mars)
".....We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeou s, talented and fabulous Actually, who are
you NOT to be...." - Marianne Williamson
"We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly. We
are brave enough to bend to cry, and sad enough to
know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech!" -
Nikki Giovanni
“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back
on what you cannot change.” - Tom Clancy
"If you want to know how the shoe fits, ask the
person
who is wearing it, not the one who made it."
- Anon
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