Gandhiji's environmentalism was based on the following ethical principles: non-violence, truth and persevering the truth; shunning the use of materials obtained by illegitimate means and so on. Gandhiji said that we can use the bounties of nature but not with an element of greed.
INVASIONS OF THE LAND Malcom S Gordon and Everett S Olson University Press, New York, 1995 that organic evolution on earth began first in the sea is certain, but the manner in which land was
