Appealing

Appealing for a better world

Take a look at the earth - that is, where it is still untouched by people. Isn’t it beautiful? Take a look at its diversity: from the minutest luminous blossom right up to the most powerful tree, from the tiny rivulet all the way to the mighty ocean, from the fertile plane with its bountiful vegetation from which we live right up to stark landscapes with imposing mountains and cliffs. The earth provides space for uncounted creatures to live on and they have gone forth from it as we have gone forth. All of us need one another – more or less.
Curiously, although we need animals and plants, people are needed least of all. [...]

What can we ourselves do?

First of all, smile

The first and simplest thing you can do is give your neighbours a smile whenever you see them. You might add a greeting to that. Hopefully, it might cause a chain reaction and your neighbour - maybe after a brief period of disorientation – would start smiling at other people, too. After a while, you might even have a chat and that goes on and on until all of a sudden the entire world is smiling. Isn’t that a pleasant vision? Well, there were also a few people who had a vision of reconciliation after the Second World War that initiated a longer-lasting process by creating a unified Europe. [...]