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Chapter 17 Conservation of Vegetation and Jain Philosophy
R.M. LODHA
Vegetation is the pulse of the ecosystem. Its existence reflects the healthy get up of the region. Plants form organic groups which indicate strong influences of environment in which they live. Each individual ecosystem has its own group of vegetation depending upon relief, climate, soil and rainfall, Animal and plants are the two principal food sources of human being. Plants as consumable and renewable sources of food, clothing, fuel, shelter etc. form a great natural resourcebase, essential to human being. Thus, vegetation is the geographic index of a region. On the basis of food habits human beings of the world can be divided into only two groups of vegetarian who does not eat animals and nonvegetarian who eats animals. As a matter of fact vegetation based foodstuffs are only the ingredients of the human diet. In broader sense, vegetation means which is grown in nature. The vëgetation in the form of cereals and pulses provided the stability to human being and stamped as civilised and as such agriculture marked the furrow between barbarism and civilisation of mankind. Thus human being could become civilised only after the humanisation of nature's gifts.
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