The forests are sources of water and the storehouses of a biodiversity that can teach us the lessons of democracy—of leaving space for others while drawing sustenance from the common web of life. There is unity with nature as the highest stage of human evolution.

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In “The Religion of the Forest” he wrote on the influence that the forest dwellers of ancient India had on classical Indian literature

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