Prabhupada, Bombay, February 24, 1974: Just like there are some flowers like rose, the fragrance is very nice. Of course, all fragrance is varieties, but prthivyam ca: the fragrance is coming from the earth. It is not synthetic fragrance. So the same earth, the same watering, the same, what is called, sara? For growing the trees, you…
Devotee: Manure.
Prabhupada: Manure. The same manure, same water, the same gardener, but according to different flowers, the fragrance is different. How this is done? Can any scientist answer? How it is coming differently? And why there are differences? If it is nature, and the ingredients are the same, why nature is not producing the same quality or the same kind of flower or trees or fruits? Why? Therefore it is answered in the Bhagavad-gita that nature is not all in all. Nature cannot work independently. Nature is the material world, material elements.
So it is answered there in the Bhagavad-gita: mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. There is superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. More
Flowers losing scent due to climate change
KUALA LUMPUR, 28 March 2010: A rose may stop smelling like a rose.
This is the concern of environmentalists as flowers are losing their scent due to climate change and air pollution. And their fragrance may be lost forever.
Science and Technology Professor Emeritus at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Dr Abdul Latif Mohamad, said genetically modified flowers might be the way out.
Climate change is also the reason Kuala Lumpur City Hall is increasingly turning to shady trees, because flowers which previously formed the centrepiece of its beautification programme have been wilting fast.
Datuk Bandar Datuk Ahmad Fuad Ismail said City Hall used to spend RM1.5 million ($635,100) a month to plant and maintain flowers in the city, but the contractor’s services were terminated in March last year.
City Hall has taken over the planting, opting for bou-gainvillea and the tropical shrubs, Ixora, for their durability and cheaper cost.
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Under the previous arrangement, some of the small flowers cost RM3.50 per seedling.
“It was getting too costly to beautify the city. Flowers were dying fast,” he said, adding that City Hall would continue to plant shady trees more suited for soaking up the increasing pollution and coping with global warming.
Latif said UKM might have offered plausible reasons as to why some pollinators were not spreading flower seeds, a pattern caused by the missing “scent trail” with scent tissues burning easily due to global warming.
“The aroma producing chemical compounds in flowers dry up faster now compared with before.”
The only way out, he said, was to genetically modify the flowers so that the effects would not be permanent and the future generation would not be robbed of nature’s beauty.
“The act is almost like producing essential oils. Scientists add on certain chemicals for stronger scent.”
He said scents in flowers last longer in colder climate as plants can hold on to their essential oils longer.
“The flowers may still have strong scents in colder climate. But locally, we fear this might be lost forever.”
With flowers emitting lesser scent, the insects and butterflies are travelling further and longer to get a share of nectar.
Latif said birds and insects were heading towards hilly areas and deeper into the jungles where the weather is cooler.
He related an incident in Sungai Siput, Perak, where the farmers failed to get fruits from their orchards.
Upon investigation, Latif’s team discovered that the flowers were no longer pollinating after dust from a hill blast blocked the growth of stigmas.
He said Malaysians could no longer rely on nature to heal itself without the help of science.
He said Malaysia needed to follow in the footsteps of Japan, Europe, the United States, China and South Korea which have invested millions in the research of genetically modified seeds.
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) director-general Datuk Dr Abdul Latif Mahmod said recently the extreme weather change might affect the life span of trees as a result of lighter or heavier rain.
“We should look at how trees can be mutated so that they will not be destroyed.”
He said experts, including from FRIM, should look at ways to prolong the lifespan of certain plants.
Meanwhile, Natural Resources and Environment Deputy Minister Tan Sri Joseph Kurup said given the extreme climate changes, every country should work together and not in isolation.
He said the decline in global biodiversity and ecosystem services urgently called for proactive measures.
“Both policy-makers and researchers need to work hand in hand to strengthen forest genetics, breeding and conservation.”
This mixing and interpolating Srila Prabhupada’s explications about Flowers,accompanied by “some studies” is not necessary.Srila Praabhuupada’s comments are made as to connect the statements directly to the subject of Krsna and toward our wisdom,and the adding of information from some studies that have not been intended or delivered by Srila Prabhupada is a kind of Trivial waste of time,in my opinion. It is personal opinion and not necessarily applicable or confirmed absolutely by Srila Prabhupada. Hari Bol.
I agree with the point Vadiraja Prabhu makes about this other “information”. Upon further investigation many disturbing things come to light about this second part of the article……….
Kuala Lumpur, 28 March 2010 “A rose may stop smelling like a rose”
This second part of the article is pure rubbish!
Dr Abdul Latif Mohamad (who is also President of WWF Malaysia) has overseen the destruction of the forests of Sarawak (which has been going on, unabated for the last 30 years). By colluding with one of the most corrupt families on the planet (the Taib family), 90% of Sarawak’s native rain-forest has been decimated in what can only be described as environmental vandalism, greed and cronyism.
In 2011 a senior executive of WWF made this statement ……”WWF Malaysia hopes to support the Sarawak Government in the “sustainable development” of this state, to ensure the wellbeing of the communities and the people of Sarawak.”…………WHAT!
Even where I live (Adelaide) the head of the Taib family Abdul Taib Mahmud is ‘under investigation’ for money laundering as he purchased the Adelaide Hilton Hotel a few yeas ago (for 30 million) with the said, ‘illegal proceeds of deforestation of Sarawaks rain-forests.
Dr Abdul Latif Mohamad’s “suggestion” that flowers should be replaced by ‘genetically modified ones’ is “a bit on the nose!” to say the least. It is not enough that his credibility is ZERO, by becoming a key player in one of the worst cases of government corruption and environmental destruction of native rain-forests the world has ever witnessed but he is also a paid shill for the Bio-tech Industry and GMO Corporations as well.
The “Global Warming Myth” has long ago been exposed as a fraud and as a precursor for Agenda 21, GMO proliferation, Codex Alimentarius, Community Surveillance, Agri-Chemical Monoculture, Mandatory Vaccination Genocide (”population control”), and various other NWO schemes. Members of ”The Bilderberg Group” (of which Al Gore is a member) which include most of EU, Britain and the US leading politicians, bankers and industrialists and other secret Freemason Societies all get together to ”hatch out their plans for Global Control!”
Other sites like PADA, Sampradaya Sun (and of course ISKCON News) all seem inclined to print articles from the ‘mainstream media’ and as a result many devotees become “brainwashed” by reading this rubbish! and without really researching WHO is this person writing this article? 99% of what is written (or spoken) in the mainstream media is complete bullshit! It is the propaganda arm of a society which has an INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL CONDITIONING on behalf of demons, degenerates, liars and Kali Chelas.
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