What nature gives people briefly. What does nature give to man?

We depend on nature not only for our physical survival. We also need nature to show us the way back home, the way out of the prison of our own mind.

We have forgotten what stones, plants, and animals continue to remember. We have forgotten how to be - how to be calm, to be ourselves, how to be where life flows - Here and Now.

As soon as you direct your attention to something natural, to something that began to exist without human intervention, you enter a state of connection with Being, in which all nature exists. Directing your attention to a stone, tree or animal does not mean thinking about it at all - simply perceiving it, holding it within your awareness.

Then something of his essence enters into you. You begin to feel how calm it is, and when you feel this, the same calm arises within you. You feel how deeply its roots go into the Existence - it is in complete agreement with what it is and where it is. Understanding this, you also come to a place within yourself where there is deep peace.

When walking or relaxing in nature, honor this kingdom by being completely present in it. Stay calm. Look. Listen. See how holistic every living being, every plant is. Unlike people, they never split into two. They don't live through their mental self-image, so they don't need to defend or inflate it. They don't even care about it at all. This is what a deer is. This is the pale yellow daffodil.

In nature, everything exists not only in complete unity with itself, everything exists in complete unity with everything else. No one isolates himself from the integral structure, claiming a separate existence like “I” and the rest of the universe.

Contemplation of nature can free you from this “I”, the main creator of troubles.

Bring your awareness to the subtle sounds of nature - the rustling of leaves in the wind, the falling of raindrops, the buzzing of insects, the first bird trill at dawn. Give yourself completely to listening. Behind the sounds there is something much more - a holiness that cannot be comprehended by thought.

If you perceive nature only through the mind, through thoughts, through thinking, then you cannot feel its liveliness, its vitality and givenness. You see only the form and are not aware of the life inside this form - and this is a holy sacrament. Thought reduces nature to the level of a commodity, an object of consumption. She uses it in pursuit of profit or for the purpose of gaining knowledge, or for some other utilitarian purpose. An ancient forest becomes lumber, a bird becomes a scientific program, a mountain becomes an object to be bored with adits or conquered.

When you perceive and become aware of nature, let there be intervals without thoughts, without reason. When you approach nature in this way, it will respond to you and participate in the evolution of both human and planetary consciousness.

Houseplants in your home - have you ever really looked at them? Have you allowed this familiar yet mysterious creature we call a plant to teach you its secrets? Have you noticed how deeply calm it is? What field of silence is it surrounded by? The moment you become aware of the emanation of calm and peace emanating from this plant, it becomes your teacher.

Observe any animal, flower or tree and see how it abides in Existence. It is itself. It has incredible dignity, innocence and holiness. But in order for you to see this, you need to go far beyond your mental habit of naming and labeling. The moment you look beyond the mental labels, you feel an ineffable dimension of nature that cannot be comprehended through thinking or sense perception. This is harmony, the holiness of which is lowered and permeated not only by all nature as a whole, but which also exists within you.

The air you breathe is nature, as is the process of breathing itself.

Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. This is the breath of nature. If you had to remember to breathe, you would soon die, and if you tried to stop your breathing, nature would win.

By becoming aware of your breath and keeping your attention on it, you reconnect with nature in the most intimate and powerful way. This action is healing and deeply inspiring. It causes a shift in your consciousness from the conceptual world of thoughts to the inner realm of unconditional consciousness.

You need nature as a teacher to help you reunite with Being. But not only does nature need you, it needs you too.

You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life, manifesting itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all closely intertwined and completely interconnected. When you understand this holiness, beauty, unimaginable silence and dignity in which a flower or tree exists, then you add something to both the flower and the tree. Through your understanding, your awareness, nature also comes to know itself. She comes to know her own beauty and holiness - through you!

Nature exists in a pristine and pure calm that preceded the appearance of thought. And the tree, and the flower, and the bird, and the stone are not aware of their own beauty and holiness. When people become quiet, they go beyond thought. In the silence behind thought, another dimension is added - the dimension of knowledge and awareness.

Nature can bring you peace and tranquility. This is her gift to you. When you perceive nature and connect with it in this field of silence, then your awareness begins to permeate this field. This is your gift to nature.

What nature gives to man Man lives thanks to nature. Nature gives us everything: the clean air we breathe, the wood we build the houses in which we live. We get heat from wood and coal, which nature also gives us. Almost all of our home furniture is also made of wood. We pick mushrooms and berries in the forest, where we relax and breathe clean air. The natural world is wonderful and mysterious. Listen to the murmur of river streams, the singing of birds, the rustling of grass, the hum of bumblebees, and you will understand this. Have you seen the sun at dawn? The sun turns into a small, but still, holiday, any ordinary and everyday day of a person. When the sun is above us, it becomes better, warmer around us and in ourselves. Our fairy forests are amazing! And the glades are real “greenhouses of nature”! Look carefully at every new flower, every strange blade of grass, and you will be able to feel their charming power. Climbing to the top of the hill, you feel as if you are rising above the planet. Nature appears here in its clear harmony and beauty. The sun, forest, sandy shore, water, wind... bring us great joy. The sages and dreamers of the past more than once tried to list the “wonders of the world” - miracles created by nature and created by human hands. They talked about seven miracles, searched for and found the eighth, but, it seems, no one ever mentioned the miracle - the only one known to us in the Universe. This miracle is our planet itself, together with the atmosphere - the container and guardian of life. And while it continues to remain the only, incomparable, riddle of the birth and history of the planet itself, the riddle of the origin of the life of the mind, the future destinies of civilization. This is a miracle of nature. Man is a part of it. Nature provides food for man. Wind and sun, forest and water give us common joy, shape our character, make it softer and more poetic. People are inextricably linked by nature with thousands of threads. Human life depends on the state of nature. Protecting nature concerns us all. We all breathe the same air of the Earth, drink water and eat bread, the molecules of which continuously participate in the endless cycle of substances. And we ourselves are thinking particles of Nature. This places a huge responsibility for its safety on each of us, each and every one without exception. Each of us can and must contribute to the fight for the preservation of Nature, and therefore life on Earth. *** Take care of the Earth! Take care of the Lark in the blue zenith, The butterfly on the dodder leaves, The sun's glare on the path... Take care of the young shoots At the green festival of nature, The sky in the stars, the ocean and the land And the soul that believes in immortality, - The connecting threads of all destinies. Take care of the Earth! Take care... Nature is our common home. Nature is life. If we take care of her, she will reward us, and if we kill, we will die ourselves. Also here: http://nature-man.ru/rol-prirody-v-zhizni-cheloveka.html http://evza.ru/articles/natur/chto_daet_priroda.html

Answer from Angela[guru]
What does nature give to man?

***
Take care of the Earth!
Take care
Lark at the blue zenith,
Butterfly on dodder leaves,
There are sun glares on the path...
Take care of young shoots
At the green festival of nature,
Sky in stars, ocean and land
And a soul that believes in immortality, -
All destinies are connected by threads.
Take care of the Earth!
Take care...
Nature is our common home. Nature is life. If we take care of her, she will reward us,
and if we kill, we will die ourselves.
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Answer from Mashenka Romanova[newbie]
nature is the beginning of life

Answer from Masha Lopukhina[newbie]
Man lives thanks to nature. Nature gives us everything: the clean air we breathe, the wood we build the houses in which we live. We get heat from wood and coal, which nature also gives us. Almost all of our home furniture is also made of wood. We pick mushrooms and berries in the forest, where we relax and breathe clean air.
The natural world is wonderful and mysterious. Listen to the murmur of river streams, the singing of birds, the rustling of grass, the hum of bumblebees, and you will understand this. Have you seen the sun at dawn? The sun turns into a small, but still, holiday, any ordinary and everyday day of a person. When the sun is above us, it becomes better, warmer around us and in ourselves.
Our fairy forests are amazing! And the glades are real “greenhouses of nature”! Look carefully at every new flower, every strange blade of grass, and you will be able to feel their charming power. Climbing to the top of the hill, you feel as if you are rising above the planet. Nature appears here in its clear harmony and beauty. The sun, forest, sandy shore, water, wind... bring us great joy.
The sages and dreamers of the past more than once tried to list the “wonders of the world” - miracles created by nature and created by human hands. They talked about seven miracles, searched for and found the eighth, but, it seems, no one ever mentioned the miracle - the only one known to us in the Universe. This miracle is our planet itself, together with the atmosphere - the container and guardian of life. And while it continues to remain the only, incomparable, riddle of the birth and history of the planet itself, the riddle of the origin of the life of the mind, the future destinies of civilization. This is a miracle of nature. Man is a part of it. Nature provides food for man. Wind and sun, forest and water give us common joy, shape our character, make it softer and more poetic. People are inextricably linked by nature with thousands of threads. Human life depends on the state of nature.
Protecting nature concerns us all. We all breathe the same air of the Earth, drink water and eat bread, the molecules of which continuously participate in the endless cycle of substances. And we ourselves are thinking particles of Nature. This places a huge responsibility for its safety on each of us, each and every one without exception. Each of us can and must contribute to the fight for the preservation of Nature, and therefore life on Earth.

Answer from Gulnas Zubairova[newbie]
she gives us everything: air and food, etc.

By Dennis Fischer

Today there are not many true corners of nature left. Urbanization and the conquest of nature by man are occurring at a tremendous pace, and soon only inaccessible areas with harsh climatic conditions will remain. New routes and winter roads are being built in the Russian taiga. The highway to Chukotka is a matter of the near future. But the question comes to mind: man has conquered nature, but what has he done for it lately?

Many protected areas have recently appeared in the CIS. But, as before, organizing reserves is a complex matter. Often nature reserves are given the worst locations, while neighboring forestry enterprises maintain excellent forests. It is very difficult for us to make a beautiful forest a protected area; it is much easier to cut it down in half and leave a pile of rubbish. Nowadays, national parks are mainly organized in which logging is allowed and only a small core is created where nature is inviolable. And salaries for employees of the reserve system are among the lowest in Russia.

Recently, a message was circulated online that in Transbaikalia, due to massive deforestation, rivers began to lose navigability.

The balance of nature in the world is disrupted - glaciers are actively melting, water is being used irrationally, forests are being cut down. Reservoirs are made on rivers, which destroy entire ecosystems of riverine plains and form freshwater seas, in which the water often blooms and the already scarce fish die. It turns out that now much, much depends on the person. Why not take concrete steps to restore the nature of our planet?

But it is precisely when nature is completely destroyed that people begin to take action to restore it. Germany is ahead of everyone; concrete steps have been taken there to restore forests and rivers. China has also come to its senses from the total conquest of nature. When I traveled around China, I saw young forests everywhere. Twenty years ago, large tracts of forests were destroyed here. After this, the consequences immediately began: the deserts began to advance at a rapid pace, and even Beijing began to be covered with sandstorms. Now the Chinese are paid money to plant trees. In a short time, many parks appeared in stuffy cities. In Chengdu I saw large trees and was surprised that they had been planted recently. Large trees are brought from the forests on dump trucks, droppers are installed, and after a while a park with old-growth trees appears in the new microdistrict. So in the once deserted mountains, landscaping is also happening on a large scale - thousands of trees are being planted. In the provinces of Xinjiang and Gansu there are loess soils - it is difficult to grow anything here. However, I was surprised when I saw thousands of fields, and next to them there was lifeless land, where there was not a single blade of grass, only dust. All this is grown thanks to fertilizers and is not very useful for the human body, but in conditions of overpopulation we have to resort to such methods. So why not restore forests that will help bring water back? Unfortunately, in the Central Asian regions of China, water is used irrationally, overgrazing by livestock destroys the already sparse vegetation, and deserts are encroaching on new territories.

There are not many successful examples of nature restoration. In the Kherson region of Ukraine there is a small desert called Aleshkovsky Sands. Once upon a time, through the joint efforts of scientists, it was possible to stop the sand dunes and plant this place with forests. And the growth of the desert stopped. This experience can be used to restore other regions. After all, cypress trees once grew green in the Sahara Mountains. Humanity has enough knowledge to solve the problem of desertification, even if it takes several hundred years.

In India, where there is also a large water shortage, local scientists managed to return water to wells. Once upon a time, forests were cut down on the banks of the river, and the area became a desert, and the water in the riverbed disappeared. But local scientists were able to revive this river by replanting forests.

So we should now pay attention to the problem of deforestation. After all, everything will be much more complicated further.

The universe is one. Thanks to the ability to think, a person realizes responsibility for the world around him and himself as a part of this whole. What has nature given to man and how is he responsible for the state of the world around him?

Nature as a natural habitat

Nature is a natural habitat that does not depend on human activity.

This is a set of ecosystems, each of which is determined by the characteristics of the relief, terrain, climate, flora and fauna, precipitation levels and other natural indicators of the state of the habitat.

Man is a part of nature, its product. Thanks to the ability to think and actively influence the world around us, the role of man in nature is not limited to his place in the ecological system. The impact on the environment transforms natural factors to meet the needs of humanity and changes its natural balance, which often leads to the threat and real facts of cataclysms.

The role of man in nature

Man has an active influence on nature in various forms of life activity:

• Development of natural resources. Allows a person to solve issues of energy supply and livelihoods using raw materials.
• Development of new territories. Development of the infrastructure of cities and settlements and expansion of the zone of human presence on different continents.
• Development of production. Processing of raw materials and problems of waste disposal have a significant impact on the ecology of the surrounding world.

In the process of using energy, territories of everything that nature gives to modern man, the negative prognosis from the consequences of active human influence is not always sufficiently calculated. In this case, a number of problems arise that pose a threat to nature.

modern world

All the wealth of the surrounding world that nature has given to man has been mercilessly used in the history of the development of human civilization. This process is carried out especially actively these days, using industrial production technologies.

As a result of the consumer attitude towards natural resources, modern ecologists identify the following problems on a global scale.

• Surface pollution and landscape changes. It affects the state of climatic zones, provokes disturbances in the balance of the system, and the extinction of animal species.
• Destruction of the ozone layer. Result in exceeding permissible levels of ultraviolet radiation.
• Changes in the state of the world's oceans. This system is a universal regulator of natural phenomena. Creates a threat of imbalance in the world's ocean ecosystem.
• Reduction of mineral resources. It entails a shortage of raw materials, on the extraction of which humanity’s life support systems depend, and provokes a change in the structure of the earth’s crust.
• Extermination of plant and animal species. Leads to an imbalance in the ecosystem.
• Forest reduction. Poses a threat to the atmosphere.

All problems are interconnected and ultimately lead to the threat of self-destruction of humanity.

Ways to restore harmony between nature and man

The consequences of consumer attitudes towards nature are not encouraging. In this case, you need to look at man again from the position of the rational principle in nature.

The natural way to solve problems is to return everything that nature has given to man. Is this possible in the present situation?

First of all, it is necessary to change the nature of interaction with nature and move from excessive consumer-technocratic use of its resources to rational interaction.

1. Restoration of forest areas. Through the implementation of government programs, it is possible to completely restore the green park.
2. Recovery A program is currently being developed to solve the problem at the level of interstate integration.
3. The energy supply to humanity must be carried out through new methods and the development of new energy sources (nuclear, solar).
4. Joining efforts at the global level and creating principles for the rational use of natural resources.

Ecological perspective

It's hard to overestimate since it is the condition and possibility of its existence. Therefore, the only expedient solution to all problems is to change a person’s self-awareness.

Solving the problem at the global level does not only mean uniting world communities at the state level. The most important factor is the introduction of disciplines into the systems of preschool and school education in order to form a worldview for active participation in the conservation of natural resources. Only with a large-scale approach is it possible not only to save, but also to compensate for everything that nature has given to man.