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Man and Nature working Together

Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2011

by David Tanguay

“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.” Henry David Thoreau

Yes, God put on this planet many beautiful and breathtaking wonders that can leave us at awe with the world. Those of us who stop to smell the roses along the way do not take for granted nature’s beauty.

Those of us who look at creation in a capitalistic point of view i.e., how to benefit financially in using Mother Nature’s bounty for profit are indeed a greedy bunch. Surely, we as human beings do need some of nature’s plentiful resources to give us more conveniences in the material world.

However stripping her without replenishing her with a means to reproduce more of what we have taken from her is surely wrong. We must replace a tree with a tree and so on. To be grateful and appreciative for her potential as useful material we as a people are responsible.

Our industrial foundation created to serve the needs of the people has benefited us as the human race a great deal. Here in the 21^st. century we have explored and put to use most of all our natural resources. We are as a civilization quite dependent on our natural resources. We could not survive without them.

Therefore, take time to study nature’s magnificence and be grateful for its existence. For just as a simple clay brick before fired up to its potential for creating our skyscrapers, we must be grateful for nature’s abundance of raw materials made useful by man’s ingenuity.

“Keep close to Nature's heart. Break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” John Muir

Dave Tanguay was born on November 8,1948 in Westbrook, Maine. The 10^th. child of a family of eleven children. Served in Vietnam in the 60s, he became active with the youth movement of that day on completion of military duty. Now retired and living in Florida. (still believes in the young)

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» left by Susan Thom
173 days 14 hours ago.
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hi david,

this article rings so true. I've always worried about how we as people would replenish what we used of our world's natural resources. i hope in this age, we are more aware of the need to do so.

thanks for sharing,

my best,

sue

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» left by David Tanguay 173 days 13 hours ago.
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Yes Susan, we must take care of our mother nature, thanks for commenting.

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» left by Iris Taub
172 days 20 hours ago.
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Good article!

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