India, June 7 -- World Environment Day demands more than awareness-it requires confronting the restless desires driving destruction

The parks of London do something to the mind, if one lingers in them long enough without an agenda. Walking through one in the late evening, when the city has begun to loosen its grip, and the light is going amber behind the beech trees, something in the usual interior traffic pauses. The commentary. the scheduling, the low-grade ambient performance of being a person with places to go, goes momentarily quiet. Into that quiet something unremarkable enters: the tree is simply a tree, the grass is simply grass, the last birds settling overhead have no awareness of the observer whatsoever. It lasts perhaps ten s...