Collecting the aura of heaven and earth and the essence of all things, brave human beings have gone from the flood era to the civilized century. Human wisdom has created economic miracles, but ignorance and greed have left terrible consequences. Environmental pollution and ecological deterioration make the earth groan in pain. Be kind to everything, just like being kind to our friends. Saving the earth means saving our home! Humans gradually wake up from the nightmare: the harmony between man and nature is the only way out for sustainable development.
The sudden SARS virus makes people reflect on their behavior. How should human beings treat nature? How do humans live in harmony with nature? Interconnection, interdependence and harmony are the main concepts of harmony between man and nature.
It is our common responsibility to build an eco-friendly society. With the rapid population growth in China, many places are experiencing "energy crisis", and the contradiction of shortage of water, land, minerals and other resources is becoming increasingly acute. Countless forests have been cut down indiscriminately, which has worsened the ecological environment. This situation is very serious. The earth is the only home for human survival, and we can't watch our home destroyed by our own hands. Let's act, human beings. Let's save a drop of water and protect a grass. Keep the sky clear, the river clear, the grass green, the flowers bright, the sun still shining and the earth still shining!
We should choose rational development path, call for green civilization, call for scientific decision-making mode, call for scientific production mode and call for scientific lifestyle. Let people live in harmony with nature!
The relationship between man and nature, after excluding all dogmatic and conceptual definitions and induction, what is left?
There is no doubt that we live in the embrace of nature, and in the process of taking from nature, we feed back nature with our own thoughts and actions derived from them. Many orthodoxy holds that labor is the main symbol that distinguishes people from other natural creatures, but in fact, people are human because they know how to think. It is precisely because of the connectivity and communication of ideas that people can establish a seemingly metaphysical but real and hidden connection with nature.
It is said that spiritual things are interlinked. Tao Yuanming can "pick chrysanthemums under the hedge and see Nanshan leisurely"; Li Yishan can "leave the residual lotus to listen to the rain"; Su Dongpo can "throw stones over the air, surf the waves and roll up thousands of piles of snow" ... Is this that nature is creating literature, or is the meaning of life close to nature? The flowing harp in the mountain invites friends and pine trees to enjoy it. When people pin their spiritual existence on mountains and trees, they gain a broad natural living space.
Therefore, I don't want to keep my eyes and arguments on the material level. If there is no harmony between man and nature in ideological depth and spiritual concept, all "sustainable development" and "recycling" are as ridiculous farce as "planting trees with one hand and cutting down trees with the other". The spiritual fit is definitely not a simple technology, machinery or economy.
In fact, the slogan of protecting the environment and saving nature has been shouted for many years, but do people really realize the importance of protecting nature? Secular and practical utilitarianism leads to the fact that human beings have to experience skin pain before they can moan and nest like Hao Han birds. The flood lasted for several years and resisted for several years. The drought lasted for several years, and it also lasted for several years. The means for human beings to save themselves in disasters have to be said to be enormous: cutting-edge science, classic theories, wave after wave of epics, touching ... What have these changed? What can it change? The relationship between man and nature, naturally, after getting tired of people who are getting farther and farther away from themselves, the result is the flood mentioned in the Bible, which cleanses one's arms. Perhaps, what really makes us sad is that by that time, even the opportunity of Noah's ark will not be given to us by heaven.
Of course, when dealing with the relationship between man and nature, I do not deny the use of advanced science and technology and the use of gradually improved natural science. I just want to appeal to people that it is time to get rid of unassuming arrogance, arty narcissism, decadent selfishness, and the spirit of being numb by material and utility, so that the soul can return to peace and enter nature.
Just now, a classmate stepped onto the podium and opened her mouth to say "the harmony between man and nature", which made my eyes shine, but she repeatedly stressed that "the harmony between man and nature" is linked to the small-scale peasant economy, so it is necessary to find out what reference it has for the relationship between man and nature under our current industrial civilization. I didn't want to say this word at first, because "harmony between man and nature" has been overused in recent years. I think I should clarify some misunderstandings about this word. "Harmony between Heaven and Man" is actually a spiritual realm. Not limited to a certain school, Confucianism is also very prominent, and Zen is also deeply understood. This idea first penetrated into art, and art forms such as architecture, calligraphy, painting, poetry and so on came down in one continuous line with China's ancient civilization, with a long history. I don't quite agree with that classmate who just bound and limited the "harmony between man and nature" to the social form of feudal small-scale peasant economy, so it is too practical and direct to judge that it is no longer suitable for the present life and civilization. It is precisely the cultural thought represented by "harmony between man and nature" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that has lasted for 3,000 years for our whole nation.
The significance of "harmony between man and nature" lies in its fuzziness, unpredictability, uncertainty and mystery, because it is through these characteristics that such an idea coincides with the characteristics of nature. Isn't nature in our eyes presented to us with such characteristics? Who can clap his chest and say that nature in my eyes is clear, coherent and logical, as closely connected as screws and nuts? What is eternal is classic, and what is lasting is nature. In the continuous development of civilization, it should not be the occasional five million that can shock our hearts. It shouldn't be a wonderful NBA game, so what should it be?
The relationship between man and nature should not be a cultural phenomenon to gain economic benefits; We should not stop at the sustainable development of human beings, but at the factors that promote the circulation of natural science and technology. We should change our point of view. What has nature taught us? Turn people into machines or computers? Or become blue sky and white clouds?
Finally, I want to end my speech with a contrast: when the World Trade Center, a symbol of post-industrial civilization wealth, collapsed under the impact of the evil humanity alienated by the civilized form it represented, let's take a look at the Dujiangyan water conservancy project in Tianfu Basin, which has benefited a hot land for thousands of years. This is the classic of "harmony between man and nature", and the perfection of harmony between man and nature.