Peepal Baba

Ezekiel Professor S.M.

Ezekiel in fact he taught us American literature in Pune University used to come from Bombay University and he was a he used to on killing a

tree used to teach us by Jeev Patel and you know how a tree you just can't chop a tree and say that it's dead you know the whole process it's a complete poem by itself.

I would not you know say that this particular poet or that particular poet

Trees, in fact, they were invoking the trees, they were invoking nature, they were invoking the forest to write their own poetry, right?

So I think tree is one of the most beautiful things that God has created.

And when we talk about colors, it's the flowers, it's the insects, the butterflies, the...

Many people tell me that you've taught literature.

I've taught literature for so many years that I was just trying to say that the kind of work that I'm doing out there on the land, it doesn't gel with a person with literature majors, as you said.

But I think because I studied literature, I'm able to appreciate what I see on the land.

When we create those forests, that is where, you know, and that period, 1878 to mid-90s, that century, where so many romantic poets came up and they were writing.

You can, whether it was Wordsworth's Daffodils and...

you can actually see that work, the poetry taking shape on the land.

It's too intense for me.

So I won't be able to put it in other words in just a few seconds or a few minutes.

But I think if, okay, I'll put it this way.

If I had not studied literature, I would not have been People Baba.

Got it.

It gave me that strength that even a person like Shakespeare, a person, you know, all the classics that were written, all the masters I would call in literature.

Everything makes sense when you work in the forest.