The beauty of nature has been repeatedly sung by poets and writers; songs and films have been made about it. Calls to protect the world around us are heard quite often, but what does this mean in practice for an ordinary person?
Instruction manual
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Nature has an enormous margin of safety. If not for her ability to renew and self-clean, humanity would have long been on the verge of extinction. Human economic activity causes great damage to nature - forests are cut down, water and air are polluted. Growing cities, paved highways, power lines, pipelines for pumping oil and gas make animal and plant life crowded. Landfills around millions of cities are amazing - these are huge territories into which hundreds, thousands tons of all kinds of waste are transported daily.
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Many people believe that little depends on them in the conservation of nature, because the main damage to it is caused by industry. But there are many people on earth, therefore, in the aggregate, mankind is capable of inflicting irreparable damage to nature. If you had to be in the forests near cities, you probably saw the consequences of resting citizens - traces of bonfires, piles of garbage, broken trees
It seems that the trouble is not to throw a candy wrapper or a crumpled pack of cigarettes. A trifle, a trifle. But there are many people, so the mountains of garbage are growing rapidly.
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That is why it is so important to realize one’s own responsibility to the outside world. It is not so important how other people act - it is important how you act. Do not throw garbage, do not break trees, do not burn bonfires where the whole forest can burn. Not to hunt birds and forest animals - these are completely different times, you hardly have to get your own food by hunting. Why kill if you can not do this? Better take a camera - in memory of visiting the forest you will have wonderful photos.
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As you relate to the world, so it relates to you. These are not unfounded statements - if a person takes care of nature, she pays him reciprocity. The world protects such a person, a lot of what happens in nature with other people does not happen to him. Remember the words from the "Jungle Book" - "You and I are of the same blood!" So it is - a person who sincerely loves nature enters into a completely special system of relations with it. Wild animals do not touch him; the world reveals to such a person its most secret secrets.
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And it all starts small. Do not tear flowers for nothing - they are alive. Do not break branches, do not throw garbage. Bring love and beauty to the world, not malice and destruction. Explain to the children that you cannot shoot sparrows from a slingshot, you cannot torture cats and dogs. Any aggression splashed out into the world, one day will surely return to you, and this is also the law. Do not strive for great achievements and feats in the name of nature - do at least what is really within your power. If each person takes care of what surrounds him, the world will become cleaner and kinder.
