There's a legend in the Bible about two trees in the Garden of Eden - one of them was the Tree of Knowledge, whose fruit when devoured by Adam & Eve, resulted in their banishment from Eden. The second one was the Tree of Life. The tree that stored in its sap the ability to bestow on man, the only thing which he has longed for aeons - immortality.
This symbol - that of a tree - of the source of immortality has been repeated numerous times in myths over the world. Be it the Peach Tree of the Chinese, the Yggdrasil of the Norsemen or the Sanjivani of the Hindus - everywhere the implication is same. The tree as a fountain of eternal life.
From time immemorial, man has realized the importance of trees. When he was nearer to the Nature, man worshipped the tree as a deity of fertility. Man was overwhelmed by the enchanting life-cycle of a tree as every winter it withered away to bloom in an unearthly magnificence again in the spring.
But as man walked down the lane of progress, he started departing away from the Nature - the source of his existence. Man built the awe-inspiring monuments of his progress - the cities - over the ashes of the trees. The trees self-abnegated to make way for the progress of the mankind. They say that gold dazzles only when it is heated to an extremely high temperature. The trees, by their act, became the epitome of gold - or particularly the property of gold.
But today, man stands on such a crossroad, where one road leads to unending evolution disregarding the side-effects while the other road leads to progress but in reconciliation with the Nature. Man has to choose his own way & only that will decide wherein lies the future of the Earth.
