NCERT Solutions for Poorvi Chapter 3 Nurturing Nature

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The unit has three texts. Neem Baba is a conversation in which a girl, Amber, talks to the neem tree in her courtyard and learns where neem came from, what its many names mean, and how every part of it is useful. What a Bird Thought is an anonymous four-stanza poem in which a bird describes its world four times over — as an egg-shell, as a straw nest, as a tree full of leaves, and finally as a world nobody fully understands. Spices that Heal Us is a letter from a grandmother to her grandchildren Vikram and Vaibhavi, listing the home remedies hidden in an ordinary Indian kitchen — haldi, methi, jeera, heeng, dalchini, laung, adrak, kali mirch, saunf and elaichi. All three texts make the same point in different ways: nature is not a background to our life, it is part of it . A tree heals us,

• Neem Baba
• Neem Baba, Part I
• Neem Baba, Part II
• What a Bird Thought
• Spices that Heal Us