“A person craves, finds and accepts beauty without any conditions, but only because it is beauty, and bows before it with reverence, without asking what it is useful for and what can be bought with it” (F M. Dostoevsky).
At school, in a literature lesson, everyone at least once wrote an essay on the theme “Love for Nature”. The topic is so abstract that not everyone is able to put into words what they feel. Like this? After all, you can “feel something” for another person or, for example, for a pet, but nature … People are so used to the technical wonders of the modern world that sometimes they don’t notice the beauty around them: in the same starry sky, forest park area or in rifts thunderclouds.
Humanity is busy discovering new inventions to improve life, love for nature fades into the background, and even into the background. Moreover, this high feeling is mixed with the banal craving of a person to be in nature.
What is what?
What is the subtext? Indeed, at first glance, both concepts mean the same thing: a person loves nature. No. When he likes to bein nature, we are talking about his desire to go out of town for weekends or holidays, swim, make barbecue, breathe fresh air and be in silence after the city stuffiness and noise. Here, only the desire of a person to change the situation at least for a day. Relax. Another proof of the lack of sincere feelings for nature is that, after resting, a person does not disdain to leave a bag of garbage under some especially beautiful bush.
Love for nature implies the unity of the human soul and natural beauty. We talk about love, lying in a forest clearing and looking at slowly floating clouds, when there is not a single thought in our head, and there is complete peace in our souls. This feeling can be said when the sound of raindrops on the cornice does not irritate, but brings peace and lulls, erasing all adversity from memory. Love for native nature is to travel for several days on a train around the country and involuntarily admire the forests, fields, hills that change outside the window of the car. At the same time, never catch yourself being bored.
To love nature means to notice beauty in its little things, without thinking about usefulness and profitability. Nature is selflessness and purity of thoughts.
Nature in Literature
A literary essay on the theme "Love for Nature" implies the presence of examples from works of art in it. It is in them that we see the undisguised beauty of nature, expressed by the powerful author's style.
Take, for example, "Farewell to Matyora" by V. G. Rasputin. Tale ofvillage in the middle of the Angara, which must be flooded in order to build the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. The population of the island is divided into two groups: the elderly and the youth. The former have become so "accustomed" to the island that they do not want and cannot leave their native land. Daria Pinigina, refusing to move to the city with her son, whitewashes her hut, although she understands that it will be burned by orderlies. Her neighbor, having left the island, dies in the city, so his wife returned to Matera.
Love for nature, love for the motherland drives the actions of the elderly. Rasputin in his narrative does not resort to precise definitions, he conveys his love for the nature of this region with abstract descriptions, but this does not prevent us, readers, from drawing in our heads the image of a small village that has separated from the whole world. Rasputin's nature is alive. There is the Owner of the Island - the embodiment of its nature, its inhabitants and their ancestors buried in this land. There is a huge tree - royal foliage, which the orderlies could not burn. The love for nature in the minds of the old people made her a real living character who cannot be broken.
Grandchildren, contrary to the old people, easily leave their native lands, hoping for a better life in the city. They do not have a drop of what sits in the soul of every elderly resident. They realize without regret that the village will be wiped off the face of the Earth, they do not believe in the Master, they do not see power in the foliage. For them, these are just fairy tales about non-existent magic.
True value
"Farewell to Matyora" is not just a story about the unfair fate of the village. The theme of love for nature is intertwined in it with the idea of confrontation between tradition and modernity, whichoften found in our lives.
Mankind uses the gifts of nature, taking them for granted. Human nature is not an object of admiration, but a source of income. The development of entrepreneurship destroys the sense of beauty in a person, giving rise to a thirst for profit. After all, even having a lot of money and the opportunity to relax abroad, a person will not admire nature, because by today's standards it is boring and unnecessary.
Living system
We have ceased to understand that nature is a single well-functioning living system. Using it for such selfish purposes will sooner or later turn against us. Remember how many victims and destruction happens after a tsunami, hurricane, earthquake… Nature knows how to kill no worse than people.
In this battle, modernity is losing, and there is only one conclusion: a person's love for nature should not be feigned. Traveling to nature does not mean loving it with your soul and heart. Resting in nature is not a true expression of feeling.
Love it
Instill this feeling should start from a young age. The deep love of children for nature is the first step in comprehending such an abstract concept. A childish feeling is to see a magician in a cloud pulling a rabbit out of a hat; running across a white dandelion field and laughing when fluff tickles your nose and cheeks; understand that a piece of paper or a bottle thrown past the urn can cause great harm to nature.
Who will be the first to roar when he sees a dead dove? Child. And why? Sorry bird! He doesn't carethat these pigeons are at every step, he now feels sorry for this lifeless one. The child will not even be able to explain why it's a pity. He will not be able to formulate that the bird could live for a long time, have offspring. He actually feels sorry for the pigeon. At that moment, the child loves him, as if he had known him all his life. An adult will simply pass by, throwing a squeamish glance towards the unfortunate bird.
Children can truly love if they are shown the right way.
Expression of feeling in guard
Love for nature is creation. Bringing an empty bottle to the trash can, picking up bags of leftover food and disposable tableware with you from the forest is within the power of everyone. Without proper treatment by man, nature will perish, and without it our existence will become impossible.
Of course, a single person will not save her from death. It should become a mass phenomenon. At the state level, assistance is possible in solving global problems: the greenhouse effect, the growth of ozone holes, pollution of the atmosphere and the oceans, etc. But everything big starts small.
Love nature, feel unity with it
F. M. Dostoevsky says that there is beauty in nature, from which, perhaps, there is no use and benefit in the industrial sphere, but it brings peace to the soul. Man is first and foremost a child of nature. Relations with her should not be parasitic. When we take something from her, we must give back. Love for her is the smallest, but the brightest thing that can be.
