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Literature shares the fundamental premise that it does not float above the material sphere in some aesthetic ether,but rather plays a significant part in an immensely complex global system in which energy ,matter and ideas interact in a perpetual dance.Barry commoners first law of ecology is "Every thing is connected to everything else "Literature acts on people and people act on the world .The world today grapples with devastating effects of climate change ,environmental ills ,destruction of rain forests and global warming .Literature plays an important role in promoting environmental awareness and encouraging action to mitigate the impact of human activity on the natural world and encourages readers to appreciate and protect it and bring about healthful actions .The paper aims to figure out how ecocriticism encourages to engage literature with raising human's awareness of environment.The paper argues how literary works play roles in this process .Literature as mirror of society and literature as model of society and how a green thread is winding its way through some literary works of kashmiri writers knitting the globe together intellectually by creating network of literary scholars committed to environmental service.who pose key questions through their works pertaining to the orientation of our social and cultural paradigms vis-a-vis the nature.