Ranjana Ghose, President of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, spoke about the important role Mother Nature plays in giving us peace. She shared some of Sri Chinmoy's heart-felt words from the Inaugural Dedication Ceremony on October 11th, 2006. A short excerpt follows,

"...at every moment I try to see a beautiful garden, a most beautiful garden, not only inside my heart, but inside each and every human being. Garden gives us beauty, all its beauty. Garden gives us all its fragrance. We all embody beauty and fragrance in abundant measure. First we have beauty deep within us. Then we offer it to the world at large. So the garden of beauty and the garden of fragrance will inundate the passers-by with beauty and fragrance. We need beauty, specially inner beauty and fragrance, to establish here on earth a garden of peace..."