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What lessons can we learn from Nature? My Guru - Swami Sivananda (Rishikesh, India) - often advises us, "Learn the lessons from Nature". Even the silence in Nature, small sounds made by birds or animals - if we tune ourselves - can be quite inspiring. It occurred to me today to take a collective feedback from Research-Gate friends, and as a by-process, we may all get benefited. 10. There are some things we can’t control "We must accept life as it comes and not worry about the things we cannot control or change. Nature best exemplifies this. During heavy torrential rains or a cyclone, everything is shattered. But later, nature restores itself as though nothing happened!" 9. To be flexible- survival of the fittest! "The phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ was coined during Darwin’s famous study of evolution. During those days, many genetic mutations took place and eventually, only the species that were fit, survived! Nature teaches us to be flexible...

Peradeniya Royal Botanical Gardens, Kandy, Sri Lanka A walker's paradise The finest of its kind in Asia Peradeniya Botanical gardens, the finest of its kind in Asia, the largest of the three botanical gardens in the island, couldn't be better located. In the Mediterranean climate of Kandy , the gateway to the central highlands, the Gardens were bounded on three sides by a loop of river Mahaweli. The history of the park Then again, the history of the park wouldn't take a backseat to its geography. Conceived originally in 1371 as the Queen's pleasure garden, it was developed by King Kirti Sri Rajasinhe (1747-1778) where royal visitors were entertained. It was converted into Botanical Gardens in 1821, by the British, six years after fall of the last Kandyan King. That was during enterprising governorship of Sir Edward Barnes , who had Sri Lanka's first tea trees planted here in 1824, though the full commercial...