outskirts of the city on their mission a farmer from maval has been traveling to pune every week to lend a hand people ask me why i travel so far that too on a day when i should be relaxing but if we dont contribute now we may soon see the end of nature shares pratap sinh patil who rides the local train to punethis movement is also drawing people who wish to celebrate a special day giving back to nature laxmiprasad chounde who celebrated his wedding anniversary last sunday says my wife swati informed me about this initiative when she got know about it through an online messaging platform i didnt have second thoughts and we decided to join them on our anniversary that happened to fall on a sunday everyone has their own way of celebrating and we chose this cause why do trees feel painphysicist and biologist jagadish chandra bose proved in his books response in the living and nonliving 1902 and the nervous mechanism of plants 1926 that plants have a sensitive nervous system not dissimilar to that of animals and their responses to external stimuli could be measured and recorded his work showed that trees could feel pleasure as well as paintrees are exposed to the chemical reaction when you insert a nail into a tree the tissue uniformity discontinues or breaks down the presence of around 10 holes could cause enough structural and health problems to kill a tree puncture wounds offer easy access to insects and diseases as well vascular plants lack immune system and when a tree is nailed a chemical reaction takes place hindering the food chain process the tree eventually dies apoorva deodhar botanist