Do You Love Nature?

Ecology is a science about nature and about the relations of man with it. Practically, it is a science studying whether we, human beings keep our common house, our Planet Earth, in a good state and how we use the gifts it is giving us: water, air, land, minerals, plants, animals etc.

I am Irina Sutokskaya, an ecologist. I've been working in environmental protection for 20 years now. When I was a little girl I felt already that nature was the place where I was feeling most natural. From that time my favourite season has been autumn when I could stroll in the woods enjoying the autumn trees, gold and purple, gathering mushrooms and thanking Mother Nature for each of them. Later, when was studying biology, doing research in ecology and reading books on physics, I understood the physical basis and the energy of those feelings.

We are really one with nature, our planet and the Universe being connected with them by every cell of our being. The feeling of being one with the world is very ancient. It is expressed in many old books and myths of different countries. For instance, Chief Seattle in his famous speech at a tribal meeting in 1854 expressed the feeling of North American Indians as follows: "Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people...

We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, horse, the great eagle — these are our brothers".

The same wonderful feeling of being one with nature was always typical also for Russian people in old times. Every Russian village family had the images of nature everywhere in the house — the flowers on the cups, bed covers and clothes, the leaves on the towels as if reflecting that time when our ancestors were wiping their faces and hands after washing with green foliage of birch tree.

Unfortunately, later our technical civilization thinking only of material goods succeeded in destroying Nature and creating the ecological crisis on our planet. And it is your challenge, young people, to restore an ecological balance on our planet and to leave it clean and healthy for future generations.

Задание 2. Представьте, что вы выступаете на конференции по проблемам экологии. Составьте план своего выступления, опираясь на текст из задания 1

МОДУЛЬНЫЙ БЛОК № 9

“COUNTRIES. PEOPLE AND THEIR LIFE”

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