Bringing together the aura of heaven and earth and the essence of all things, brave human beings have gone from the wild age to the civilized century. Human wisdom has created economic miracles, but ignorance and greed have left terrible consequences. Environmental pollution, ecological deterioration, the earth groans 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? Connecting with nature, interdependence, mutual coordination and harmonious coexistence are the main ideas of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
It is our common responsibility to build an eco-friendly society. With the rapid population growth in China, "energy crisis" has appeared in many places, and the contradiction of insufficient resources such as water, land and minerals has become increasingly acute. Countless forests have been cut down indiscriminately, which makes the ecological environment worse. The earth is the only home for human survival, and we can't watch our home destroyed by our own hands. Dude, let's move. 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 a reasonable 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 communication and exchange of ideas that people can establish a seemingly metaphysical, but actually 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? A harp is flowing in the mountains, inviting friends to enjoy it with pine and cypress. When people pin their spiritual existence on mountains and rivers, they also 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". Spiritual harmony is definitely not a simple technical, mechanical or economic one, but as elegant and quiet as the temple statues in ancient Greece and the bells in the ancient Warring States period, which dispels the natural return of utilitarian and superficial human souls.
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 very practical utilitarianism leads to the fact that human beings must experience skin pain before groaning and nesting like Hao Han birds. The flood has flowed 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 their 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, in dealing with the relationship between man and nature, I am not denying the use of advanced science and technology and the gradual improvement of natural science. I just want to appeal to people that it's time to get rid of that kind of unconfident arrogance, that kind of arty narcissism, that kind of decadent selfishness, that kind of spiritual desolation that is numb by material and utility, and let the soul return to calm and enter nature.
Just now, a classmate stepped onto the podium and opened her mouth to say "harmony between man and nature", which made my eyes shine, but she repeatedly stressed that "harmony between man and nature" is linked to the small-scale peasant economy, so we should 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. Having said that, I think we should clarify some misunderstandings about this word. "The unity of heaven and man" is actually a spiritual realm, not limited to a certain faction. There are Confucianism, Taoism is also outstanding, and Zen is equally profound. At first, this idea infiltrated into art, and it has a long history with China's ancient civilized architecture, calligraphy, painting, poetry and other art forms. I don't quite agree with that classmate just now who bound and limited the "harmony between man and nature" to the social form of feudal small-scale peasant economy. This judgment is no longer suitable for the present life and civilization, and it is too practical and direct. It is precisely the cultural thought of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, represented by the "harmony between man and nature", which is a magnificent treasure that our whole nation has been studying for 3,000 years.
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 secretly conforms to 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 5 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; Nor should it stay on the sustainable development of human beings and the driving factors of natural science and technology to the natural cycle. It's time for us to change our perspective. 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, the symbol of post-industrial civilization wealth, collapsed under the impact of the evil humanity alienated by the civilization form it represented, let us look to the green mountains and green waters in Tianfu Basin, which benefited Dujiangyan water conservancy project for thousands of years. This is the classic of "harmony between man and nature", the perfection of man and nature.