New Year Message

[Guest guest]

*Dear colleagues,*

* As the new year approaches, I wanted to share a

message by Richard St Barbe Baker, founder of the organisation 'Men of the

Trees.' I hope you find it as inspirational as I did. *

* May the new year bring happiness and fulfilment to all.*

* Best regards,*

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*http://www.manofthetrees.org/HTMLS/charter.htm*

*I Believe* in the oneness of mankind and of all living things, and the

interdependence of each and all.

 

*I Believe* that unless we play fair to the earth and practice the law of

return, we cannot exist physically; unless we play fair to our neighbor, we

cannot exist socially or internationally; unless we play fair to our better

selves, we cannot live as individuals.

 

*I Believe* in the development of a fuller understanding of the true

relationship between all forms of life, in an endeavor to maintain a natural

balance between mineral, vegetable, animal, and human life.

 

*I Believe* that the blossoming desert foretold by the prophets of old is

now being fulfilled by the steady reclamation of the Sahara. This should be

the scientific answer to the world's dilemma for it will provide a one-world

purpose unifying East and West.

 

*I Believe* that the Lord's Prayer has been answered and that it is in the

process of being fulfilled. We are entering a new era of human power and all

horizons are becoming luminous for this coming together of the sons of men,

and that the Earth will indeed become as a garden of paradise.

 

*I Believe* that this generation will either be the last to exist in any

semblance of a civilized world, or it will be the first to have the vision,

the bearing, and the greatness to say: " I will have nothing to do with this

destruction of life, I will play no part in this devastation of the land; I

am destined to live and work for peace for I am morally responsible for the

world of today and the generation of tomorrow. "

 

*I Pray* that I may be just to the Earth beneath my feet, to the neighbor by

my side, and to the light that comes from above and within, that this

wonderful world of ours may be a little more beautiful and happy for my

having lived in it.

 

*So may it be.*