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{{Panorama|image=Shola_forests.jpg|height=500px|caption=The [[Western Ghats]] of Karnataka. Blink and this area may have already been destroyed, with ever-widening roads, street-lighting, power-lines, dams, and habitations following well-established and misguided notions of development that are entrenched in the minds of most people. These are the wild spaces that inspire much of my contribution to Wikipedia, a land that supports life and hosts enough wonders to engage everyone, physically and mentally, now and in the future. Incidentally, within this view live floral and faunal elements that represent more than a million potential Wikipedia entries. Converted (or "developed") into a boring human settlement, it would not produce a single notable person.}}
{{cquote|Because I have known the torment of thirst I would dig a well where others may drink|author=[[Ernest Thompson Seton|E.T.Seton]]}}
{{Panorama|image=Pothigai_2.jpg|height=500px|caption=A bit further south in Kerala. Only slightly better off...}}

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{{Userbox|info=寄蜉蝣於天地，渺滄海之一粟 <br/>[A mayfly in the sky - a drop in the ocean]}}
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{{Userbox|info=[http://www.archive.org/stream/marcusaureliusa01auregoog#page/n142/mode/1up/ Observe how things are connected, and how things act together. See the beautiful web.]-[[Marcus Aurelius]]|id=[[File:Marcus Aurelius Metropolitan Museum.png|45px|link=Marcus Aurelius]]}}
{{userbox|id=[[File:KonTikiQuote.jpg|45px|link=Thor Heyerdahl]]|info=Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people - [[Thor Heyerdahl]]}}
{{userbox|info=I sometimes think that general and popular treatises are almost as important for the progress of science as original work.|id=[[File:Charles-darwin-portrait-svg.svg|45px|link=Charles Darwin]]}}
{{Userbox|info=When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.- [[John Muir]]|id=[[File:Collier's Muir John.png|45px|link=John Muir]]}}
{{userbox|info=The aim of science should certainly be to remove the mystery from natural phenomena, but not to take away wonder or that quality of nature which allows for the development and play of aesthetic appreciation.-[[Frank Fraser Darling|FF Darling]]}}
{{userbox|info=Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.-[[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]]}}
{{userbox|info=To keep every cog and wheel is the ﬁrst precaution of intelligent tinkering-[[Aldo Leopold]]|id=[[File:LiveRC ControlIcon Preview diff.png|45px|link=Help:Page_history]]}}
{{userbox|info=Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.- [[Charles Darwin]]|id=[[File:Charles-darwin-portrait-svg.svg|45px|link=Dunning-Kruger effect]]}}
{{userbox|info=... gravitation of scholars' roles from passive appropriator of information to active provider of information by contributing directly into the common pool.- [[Elinor Ostrom]]|id=[[File:Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-30.jpg |45px|link=Elinor Ostrom]]}}
{{userbox|info=We humans may be the smartest objects that ever came down the pike of life's history on earth, but we are outstandingly inept about certain issues, particularly when our emotional arrogance joins forces with our intellectual ignorance.-[[Stephen Jay Gould|SJ Gould]]}}
{{userbox|info=Science should be stripped of whatever tends to clothe it in a strange and repulsive garb; and every thing which, to keep up an appearance of superiority in its professors over the rest of mankind, assumes an unnecessary guise of obscurity, should be sacrificed without mercy.-[[John Herschel]]}}
{{userbox|info=The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.-[[Douglas Adams|DNA]]|id=BIAS}}
{{userbox|info=... setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can be said that essentially all organisms are insects. - [[Robert May, Baron May of Oxford|R. M. May]]|id=[[File:Blaps_icon.svg|45px|link=insect]]}}
{{userbox|info=The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.-[[Rachel Carson]]}}
{{userbox|info="What's the use of their having names," the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them?" "No use to ''them''," said Alice, "but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do they have names at all?" -[[Lewis Carroll]]|id=[[File:AAUG p06.png|45px|link=Lewis Carroll]]}}
{{Userbox|info=Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. - [[Karl Popper]]. <br/>கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு, [What you know is a fistful, what you don't is as big as the world] - [[Avvaiyar]] 13th century |id=[[File:Karl Popper.jpg|45px|link=Karl Popper]]}} 
{{userbox|info=...imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.-[[Douglas Adams]]|id=42}}
{{userbox|info=..neglect of small things is, indeed, the grand error, in consequence of which so many pass in ignorance and heaviness, that life which nature and art (for after all, art is merely the application of nature) are capable of rendering so intelligent and so full of happiness - [[Robert Mudie]]}}
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'''My user name demystified''': I have sometimes been asked about what the origin of my username and it really was never meant to be cryptic, it is actually my name and it is pronounced /ʃjɑ:mɐl/ - it is a masculine form of the name of a Hindu goddess - an avatar of [[Kali]] known as Shyamala - and from which the Himalayan town of [[Shimla]] (see [[Kali Bari, Shimla|Kali Bari]]) is Anglicized. A part of my family grew up in Phagli in the Shimla of the British Raj.

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==My watch links==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_spiders_of_India Spiders] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_odonates_of_India Odonata] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_ants_of_India Ants] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_butterflies_of_India Leps] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Hesperiidae) Hes] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/List_of_butterflies_of_India_%28Hesperiinae%29 Hes1] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/List_of_butterflies_of_India_%28Pyrginae%29 Hes2] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Papilionidae) Pap] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Pieridae) Pie] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Nymphalidae) Nym][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/List_of_butterflies_of_India_%28Satyrinae%29 Sat][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/List_of_butterflies_of_India_%28Morphinae%29 Mor][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/List_of_butterflies_of_India_%28Danainae%29 Dan][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Lycaenidae) Lyc] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_butterflies_of_India_(Riodinidae) Rio] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_reptiles_of_South_Asia Reptiles] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_fishes_of_India Fish] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_mammals_of_India Mammals] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_amphibians_of_India Amphibs] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=List_of_birds_of_India Birds] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/List_of_birds_of_Bangalore Bangalore birds]
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