Thanks, Pankaj ji, for the beautiful poem. About Dinesh ji more said is less. His vision is great. If everyone follows him, it will be a different world altogether.
On 22 September 2016 at 12:22, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > 28,510 to be precise but dont know if all are plants... it will take one > year to see.... > Thanks to Dinesh sir for his selfless efforts. > I am very sure that many people have already used his pics and names > without even letting him know. No one can match his standards and no one > can ever will. > My SALUTES to Dinesh sir. > Quote from a poem by Sohan Lal Dwivedi: > डुबकियां सिंधु में गोताखोर लगाता है, > जा जा कर खाली हाथ लौटकर आता है। > मिलते नहीं सहज ही मोती गहरे पानी में, > बढ़ता दुगना उत्साह इसी हैरानी में। > मुट्ठी उसकी खाली हर बार नहीं होती, > कोशिश करने वालों की कभी हार नहीं होती। > > Thanks for being a nice and caring friend too. > Best regards > Pankaj > > > On Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:58:39 UTC+8, JM Garg wrote: >> >> Dear members, >> Came across this post by V R Vinayaraj at Facebook. >> Sharing with you for your information pl. >> "We know Sri. Dinesh Valke is an ardent nature lover. He has been taking >> photos of plants for the last 12 years. Once he finds the correct >> identification he uploads it to Flickr. He is on a mission to find out the >> local name of the species in various languages. A continuous effort >> spanning all these years. As we know Flickr is a private company owned by >> Yahoo. It can decide the fate of images stored in its servers. Due to >> license restrictions nobody would be saving it to other places. Now Sri. >> Valke ji has decided that all his life long efforts are not a thing to be >> decided by a company's policy in the US. He has changed the licenses and >> ALL his plant photos, more than 20000, and ALL of them are now available at >> Wikimedia Commons which will eventually be used in Wikipedia articles in >> around 300 languages. Since Wikipedia is free anyone can download and store >> the images which means scores of Universities and Scholars will be storing >> them, in effect they are safe and nothing can destroy them. >> V R Vinayaraj " >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). >> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
