What nature is telling youLike it or not, nature is no longer kind with us. For nature to __________ the day again for our good, let’s sit down on her open grassland free from the debris and facilities of modern life, ___________ ourselves into her as part of her, and listen to her from the perspective of her whole being.Indeed, we have impaired our ability to ________ with nature. There is power in wild animals, for example, so we tame them with whips until they are __________ to our commands. We can’t do much with a cat, so we declaw it and even cut its vocal cords so that it is no longer able to disturb us.We love the breast meat of wild birds in particular, so we have them kept in a repressive way. And meanwhile, we _________ to the belief that nature is far from perfect. So we improve our natural looks through _____________; and we keep everything free from germs through making a steady flow of rules, even though we make our armpits smell good through spraying botanical odor on ourselves.As a result of our alienation from nature, our homes are filled with cage dwellers removed from such __________ as enjoying the _______________, sunbathing through the nodding branches of trees, and plunging into a cold stream upon a hot bath. And unable to feel the ________________ in the open, like the humidity of the summer and the chill of winter, we have to live it out through a _____________________ on TV.
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- Through part-time jobs we can have our own money. Using the money we can go travelling. We can buy things we like. We needn’t take money from our parents.
- Our _________ is so much a part of who we are and what the world is like for us that we do not ________ it. We take it for granted.
- We need to put our relationship with nature in a new perspective:consider nature as __________ ( ). A: something as precious as mountains of gold and silver B: something we can exploit without restraint C: something we can get as much resources as we want D: part of our life
- Annan appeals to us to tear down the walls in our own minds so that we are able to recognize the untold ways in which we can all ______ from cooperation.
- Through years of our _______ efforts, we have at last achieved what we have today.