00:06You have these ants going around rather than gadgets and digging tools and you will never establish a relationship. So
00:19how long did it take? Nothing.
00:25Nothing. On my birthday, that was my 11th birthday, 26th of January 1977, that she asked me that it's your
00:34birthday. You should do something good. You know, you should do something charitable. You should do something. So she gave
00:41me some money. I went to the nursery with my gardener.
00:46So he purchased some nine saplings for us. And that was the start of the whole thing. And then she
00:52was my first coach, my first guru.
01:04It is not about planting one tree or two trees or thousand trees or 500 trees. It's about how you
01:11manage the land on which those plants have been planted.
01:14You know, there has to be a succession. There has to be a waterhole. There has to be a fully
01:20integrated ecosystem over there. So biodiversity is the main keyword.
01:25Restoring the ecosystem is the keyword. Restoring the habitat for insects and animals. You know, that is the focus area.
01:33Not just counting, okay, so many saplings have been planted. It has no meaning to it.
01:38We have about four lakh volunteers across India, about four lakh people on the ground. I just tell them, my
01:44message to them is always this thing. Don't get arrogant about it. You know, and don't get aggressive about it.
01:52Do what you can. Do it lovingly. Be gentle with the planet.
