There is no doubt that the Earth was and is a giving planet. Everything humans needed to survive and thrive was provided by nature: food, water, medicine, housing materials, and even natural cycles. Yet we have become so disconnected from the natural world that we easily and often forget that nature remains as giving as ever, even as it fades away.
The rise of technology and industry may have moved us partly away from the natural world, but it has not changed our dependence on it. Much of what we use and consume every day remains the product of many interactions that are put at risk by our activities. Beyond such physical goods, the natural world provides less tangible but equally important gifts of beauty, art, and spirituality.
Here is a selective selection of the factors that nature influences on humans:
Fresh water
There is no other substance that people need more than: without water we can only survive a few hellish days. However, many of the world's drinking water sources face pollution and overuse. Soils, microorganisms and plant roots play a role in filtering and recycling pollutants, and they cost much less than building water filtration plants. According to research, the greater the biodiversity, the faster and more effective the cleanup.
Pollination
Imagine trying to pollinate every apple blossom in your orchard: this is what nature does for us. Insects, birds, and even some mammals pollinate many of the world's plants, including much of human agriculture. About 80% of plants on the planet need pollinators.
Spreading seeds
Like pollination, many of the world's plants require other species to move their seeds from the parent plant to new locations. The seeds are spread by a variety of animals: birds, bats, rodents, elephants, tapirs, and even fish. Seed dispersal is especially important in tropical forests, where most plants depend on the movement of animals.
Pest Control
A recent study found that bats save billions of dollars a year in agriculture by simply doing what they normally do: eating insects, many of which are potentially harmful to crops.
Soil health
The ground beneath our feet matters more than we often admit. Healthy, fertile soil provides optimal conditions for plants by participating in a number of natural cycles, from nutrient utilization to water purification. Although soil is renewable, it is also susceptible to overuse and degradation, often due to industrial agriculture, pollution and fertilizers. Natural vegetation and soil quality mitigate excessive erosion, which can have dramatic consequences for land loss.
Medicine
Nature is our greatest medicine cabinet: to date, it has provided humanity with many life-saving drugs from quinine, aspirin and morphine to numerous drugs in the fight against cancer and HIV.
Fishing
Humans have been turning to rivers and seas for food for at least 40,000 years, but probably even longer. Today, amid a global fisheries collapse, more than a billion people depend on fish as their main source of protein. , and seagrass ecosystems provide nurseries for the world's fisheries, while the open ocean is used for migration and hunting.
Biodiversity and abundance of wildlife
The argument for preserving the world's wildlife often comes from an aesthetic point of view. Many conservationists have fought to preserve animals simply because they like a certain species. This is often explained by the fact that more widely known animals - tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses - receive much more attention than less popular (albeit endangered) wildlife such as the clouded bat.
But aside from making the world a less lonely, less boring and more beautiful place - wonderful reasons in themselves - many of the services provided by biodiversity are similar to those provided by all of nature. Biodiversity produces food, fiber, wood products; purifies water, controls pests and pollinates; provides recreational activities such as bird watching, gardening, diving and ecotourism.
Climate regulation
The natural world helps regulate the Earth's climate. Ecosystems such as peatlands and mangroves store significant amounts of carbon, while the ocean captures carbon through phytoplankton. While regulating greenhouse gases is a must in this era, new research suggests the world's ecosystems may also play a role in weather. A recent study found that the rainforest acted as its own "bioreactor", producing clouds and precipitation thanks to the abundance of plant materials.
Economy
Nature underpins the entire global economy. Without fertile soils, clean drinking water, healthy forests and a stable climate, the world economy would face disaster. By jeopardizing our environment, we are jeopardizing our economy. According to research published in the journal Science, the global value of total ecosystem services could be between $40 and $60 trillion per year.
Health
Nature lovers have long noticed that spending time in green space, such as a park, provides mental and physical health benefits. Exercising in a park rather than a gym promotes mental health and a greater sense of well-being. Walking for 20 minutes in a green space has been shown to help children with ADHD improve their concentration, as good as medication and sometimes even better. People who live in more natural environments have better overall health, even when accounting for economic differences.
Art
Imagine poetry without flowers, painting without landscapes or films without scenery. There is no doubt that the natural world has provided the art world with some of its greatest subjects. What we lose in nature, we also lose in art.
Spirituality
Economic measurements are useful; but as with most things in the world, economics is simply unable to capture true value. Science is also a useful measure of the importance of nature, but it is unable to measure the practical and aesthetic significance for each person.
1. The problem of love for nature.
2. The influence of nature on humans.
3. The problem of comprehending beauty in nature.
4. Harmonious relationship with nature.
5. The problem of perception of the surrounding world.
ARGUMENTS:
1) You need to love nature, you need to notice its beauty. As her favorite heroine of Leo Tolstoy notes in the epic novel “War and Peace,” Natasha Rostova. Otradnoe estate. Night. Moon. The young girl cannot hide her feelings of admiration and delight at the beauty of the moonlit night. The night seems magical to her, she wants to fly. Natasha feels infinitely happy and free. She is in complete harmony with the world around her.
2) In L.N. Tolstoy’s epic novel “War and Peace,” nature has a huge influence on Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. Especially in the episode where the prince’s trip to Otradnoye on business is described. Before us is a man disappointed in life, still feeling guilty after the death of his wife, who decided to live out his life quietly and calmly.
He decided that love, happiness, interesting things were all in the past. On the way to Otradnoye in the spring, he meets an old oak tree, which stood alone and ugly with bare crooked branches and sores in the middle of greenery, sun, spring. It seemed to him that the oak, like him, did not believe in happiness, but simply wanted to live out its life in peace. On the way back in early June, Bolkonsky does not immediately recognize this oak tree. The transformed handsome man, spread out in a tent of lush greenery, stood in front of him. A feeling of joy overwhelmed the hero. “No, life is not over at 31,” thought the young prince. We see how much there is in common between man and nature.
3) In Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, we see that city residents do not notice nature. In the evening they do not walk, but sit in front of “television walls”; during the day they fly by in high-speed cars. Clarissa, who loves rain and the rustling of autumn leaves, seems strange to everyone. People stopped noticing nature. Their lives have become material and pragmatic, and they are easily manipulated by a bunch of people. At the end of the novel the city dies.
4) The hero of A.P. Platonov’s story “Yushka” very often goes into the field or forest. Here he feels happy and free. Here he forgets the insults inflicted on him by his fellow villagers, who consider him “unnecessary” on this land. He is sensitive to nature: he talks to the grass, picks up fallen butterflies and dragonflies from the path. Communication with nature gives him spiritual strength.
5) In the book by V.P. Astafiev “The Tsar Fish”, in the chapter of the same name, the main character Utrobin does not notice the beauty of nature. He treats it consumeristly, engaging in poaching, like his father and grandfather. The meeting with the king fish helped him realize that a person has no right to be so ruthless towards nature, of which he himself is a part.
Essay on the Unified State Examination How does nature influence humans? according to Prishvin's text: “If you want to understand the soul of the forest, find a forest stream and walk up or down its bank.”
How does nature influence humans? This question is raised in one of his works by the writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin.
Reflecting on the problem posed, the author describes a forest landscape in early spring. The hero walks near a stream and notices every detail of the reviving nature: he follows the path of a running stream, sees flower buds that have not yet bloomed, smells birch resin. The writer notes how “water encounters new and new obstacles, and nothing is done to it.” The writer learns from nature’s perseverance and strength. Water inspires the narrator to fight against adversity.
“The entire passage of the stream through the forest is the path of a long struggle, and this is how time is created here,” the hero comes to the conclusion. Nature helps the hero better understand life by observing the natural course of things. With this conclusion, the author leads us to the conclusion: human life is the path to happiness, thorny, complex, but incredibly interesting and important. These examples indicate that nature helps a person better understand life and find inspiration.
The narrator’s feelings also become important for understanding the problem: “I felt like it couldn’t have been better, and I had nowhere else to strive.” This example shows that unity with nature helps a person achieve harmony.
All examples, complementing each other, point to the positive impact of nature on humans, indicate the close relationship between nature and humans and help to better understand the author’s position.
M. M. Prishvin believes that a person understands himself better when he observes nature, because he himself is part of it. Looking at nature, overcoming difficulties, reborn and blossoming every spring, we are inspired, achieve inner harmony, and all problems temporarily fade into the background.
Not only I, but also many Russian poets agree with the writer’s opinion. For example, A. A. Fet in his famous poem “I came to you with greetings...” writes: “... the soul is still happy / And ready to serve you,” “... from everywhere / It blows on me with joy, / That I myself don’t know that I will / Sing - but only the song is ripening.” This once again confirms that nature has a beneficial effect on humans. It becomes a source of human optimism, inspiration for new, as yet unknown to us, things.
To summarize, we can say that the beneficial influence of nature is very important for the moral and physical condition of a person. It’s not for nothing that we feel sad and sleepy when it rains, and happy when it’s sunny.
Write an essay based on the text below. Volume of at least 150 words.
Formulate one of the problems posed by the author of the text.
Comment on the formulated problem. Include in your comment two illustrative examples from the text you read that you think are important for understanding the problem in the source text (avoid excessive quoting).
Formulate the position of the author (storyteller). Write whether you agree or disagree with the point of view of the author of the text you read. Explain why. Give at least two arguments, based primarily on reading experience, as well as knowledge and life observations.
Original text
In the autumn forest everything was yellow and crimson, it seemed that everything was burning and shining along with the sun. The trees had just begun to shed their clothes, and the leaves were falling, swaying in the air, silently and smoothly. It was cool and light, and therefore fun. The autumn smell of the forest is special, unique, persistent and pure, so much so that Bim could smell the owner tens of meters away. NOW the owner sat down on a stump, ordered Bim to sit too, and he took off his cap, put it next to him on the ground and looked at the leaves. And listened to the silence of the forest. Well, of course he smiled! He was now the same as always before the start of the hunt. And so the owner got up, unsheathed the gun, and put in the cartridges. Bim trembled with excitement. Ivan Ivanovich patted him affectionately on the back of the neck, which made Bim even more excited. - Well, boy, look! Bim has gone! It went like a small shuttle, maneuvering between the trees, squat, springy and almost silent. Ivan Ivanovich slowly followed him, admiring his friend’s work. Now the forest with all its beauties remains in the background: Glavvgoe-Bim, graceful, passionate, light on the move. Occasionally calling him to him, Ivan Ivanovich ordered him to lie down to let him calm down and get involved. And soon Bim walked smoothly, competently. Great art is the work of a setter! HERE he walks at a light gallop, raising his head, he doesn’t need to lower it and look underneath, he takes the smells on horseback, while the silky fur fits his chiseled neck. That’s why he’s so handsome because he holds his head with dignity, confidence and passion. The forest was silent. The golden birch leaves played just a little, bathing in the sparkles of the sun. The young oak trees grew quiet next to the majestic giant oak-father, hugging the progenitor. The silver-gray leaves remaining on the aspen flutter silently. And on the fallen yellow leaves stood a dog, one of the best creations of nature and patient man. Not a single muscle moved! This is what the classic yellow forest stance is all about! - Go ahead, boy! Bim lifted the woodcock onto the wing. Shot! The forest perked up, responding with a dissatisfied, offended echo. It seemed that the birch tree, which had climbed to the border of the oak and aspen trees, was frightened and shuddered. The oak trees groaned like heroes. The aspen trees nearby were hastily sprinkled with leaves. Woodcock fell into a lump. Bim served it according to all the rules. But the owner, having caressed Bim and thanked him for the beautiful work, held the bird in his palm, looked at it and said thoughtfully: “Eh, it’s not necessary...
Bim didn’t understand, he peered into Ivan Ivanovich’s face, and he continued: “Only for you, Bim, for you, stupid.” But it’s not worth it. Yesterday was a happy day. But still there is some kind of sediment in my soul. Why not? I felt sorry for killing the game. It’s so nice all around, and suddenly the bird is dead. I am not a vegetarian or a prude who describes the suffering of killed animals and eats their meat with pleasure. But until the end of my days I set myself a condition: one or two woodcock per hunt, no more. If there is none, it would be even better, but then Bim will die like a hunting dog. and I will be forced to buy a bird that someone else will kill for me. No, excuse me from this... Where does the residue from yesterday come from? And is it only from yesterday? Did I miss some thought?.. So, yesterday: the pursuit of happiness, a yellow forest - and a dead bird. What is this: isn’t it a deal with your conscience? Stop! This is the thought that escaped yesterday: not a deal, but a reproach of conscience and pain for everyone who kills uselessly when a person loses his humanity. From the past, from memories of the past, pity for birds and animals comes and grows in me. Ah, yellow forest, yellow forest! Here is a piece of happiness for you, here is a place for reflection. In the autumn forest a person becomes cleaner.
Composition
In his text, the Russian Soviet writer Gavriil Nikolaevich Troepolsky raises the problem of the impact of nature on humans.
Revealing the problem, the author cites an episode from his life as an example. One day, while walking through the spring forest, the author, amazed by the beauty of the forest, comes to the idea that in the forest a person becomes cleaner. Troepolsky also says that nature is capable of awakening the best qualities in a person, because it is not for nothing that he calls nature “a beautiful dream of reality.”
The author believes that it is nature that helps awaken joy and love in a person’s soul and cleanses him of negative emotions.
I completely agree with the author’s opinion that the beauty of the world around us acts on people as medicine, makes them think about beauty.
I can prove the correctness of this point of view by referring to the work of I.A. Goncharov "Oblomov". In the novel, in the chapter “Oblomov’s dream,” the author depicts Oblomovka, where the main character grew up. This is a place where nature protects residents from adversity. Living life in such a place, people are in harmony with the world. Their souls are pure like nature itself; there are no dirty thoughts or actions here. Everything is peaceful and friendly. Oblomov is a product of this world. He has kindness, beauty of soul, attention to his neighbor, everything for which Stolz valued him so much and Olga fell in love with him. So the author wants to convey to us the idea that the beauty of nature affects the residents of Oblomovka in the best possible way.
The same problem is revealed in B. Vasiliev’s story “Don’t Shoot White Swans.” The main character loves nature and admires its mysterious beauty. After visiting the zoo, Egor, amazed by the beauty of the swans, decided to buy these beautiful birds in order to settle them on the lake. The author shows us the kindness of the soul of this man, who is unable to tolerate violence towards all living things. This example proves to us that nature is capable of awakening the best qualities in a person and directing him to the true path.
Thus, nature really awakens the most beautiful feelings in a person: happiness, joy, inspiration. A person who has seen the beauty of nature becomes cleaner and kinder to others.
What role does nature play in human life?
Text: Anna Chainikova
Photo: news.sputnik.ru
Writing a good essay is not easy, but correctly selected arguments and literary examples will help you get the maximum score. This time we are looking at the topic: “Man and Nature.”
Sample problem statements
The problem of determining the role of nature in human life. (What role does nature play in human life?)
The problem of the impact of nature on humans. (What impact does nature have on humans?)
The problem is the ability to notice beauty in the ordinary. (What gives a person the ability to notice beauty in the simple and ordinary?)
The problem of the influence of nature on the spiritual world of man. (How does nature influence the spiritual world of man?)
The problem of the negative impact of human activity on nature. (What is the negative impact of human activity on nature?)
The problem of a person’s cruel/kind attitude towards living beings. (Is it acceptable to torture and kill living beings? Are people capable of treating nature compassionately?)
The problem of human responsibility for the preservation of nature and life on Earth. (Is man responsible for preserving nature and life on Earth?)
Not everyone can see the beauty of nature and its poetry. There are quite a lot of people who perceive it utilitarianly, like Evgeny Bazarov, the hero of the novel “Fathers and Sons.” According to the young nihilist, “nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it.” By calling nature “trifles,” he is not only unable to admire its beauties, but in principle denies this possibility. I would not agree with this position, who in the poem “Not what you think, nature...”, in fact, gave an answer to all supporters of Bazarov’s point of view:
Not what you think, nature:
Not a cast, not a soulless face -
She has a soul, she has freedom,
It has love, it has language...
According to the poet, people who remain deaf to the beauty of nature have existed and will exist, but their inability to feel is worthy only of regret, because they “live in this world as if in darkness.” The inability to feel is not their fault, but a misfortune:
It's not their fault: understand, if possible,
Organa life of the deaf and dumb!
Soul him, ah! won't alarm
And the voice of the mother herself!..
It is to this category of people that Sonya, the heroine of the epic novel, belongs. L. N. Tolstoy"War and Peace". Being a rather prosaic girl, she is not able to understand the beauty of the moonlit night, the poetry in the air that Natasha Rostova feels. The girl’s enthusiastic words do not reach Sonya’s heart, she only wants Natasha to quickly close the window and go to bed. But she cannot sleep, her feelings overwhelm her: “No, look what a moon it is!.. Oh, how lovely! Come here. Darling, my dear, come here. Well, do you see? So I would squat down, like this, grab myself under the knees - tighter, as tight as possible, you have to strain - and fly. Like this!
- Come on, you'll fall.
There was a struggle and Sonya’s dissatisfied voice:
- It's two o'clock.
- Oh, you're just ruining everything for me. Well, go, go."
Lively and open to the whole world, Natasha's pictures of nature inspire dreams that are incomprehensible to the down-to-earth and insensitive Sonya. Prince Andrei, who became an involuntary witness to a conversation between girls at night in Otradnoye, is forced by nature to look at his life with different eyes, pushing him to reassess his values. First, he experiences this on the field of Austerlitz, when he lies bleeding and looks into the unusually “high, fair and kind sky.” Then all the previous ideals seem petty to him, and the dying hero sees the meaning of life in family happiness, and not in fame and universal love. Then nature becomes a catalyst for the process of revaluation of values for Bolkonsky, who is experiencing an internal crisis, and gives impetus to returning to the world. The tender foliage that appears in the spring on the old gnarled branches of the oak tree with which he associates himself gives him the hope of renewal and instills strength: “No, life is not over at thirty-one,” Prince Andrei suddenly decided finally and without change.<…>... it is necessary that my life should not go on for me alone.”
Happy is the one who feels and hears nature, is able to draw strength from it, and find support in difficult situations. Yaroslavna, the heroine of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” is endowed with such a gift, turning three times to the forces of nature: with a reproach for her husband’s defeat - to the sun and wind, for help - to the Dnieper. Yaroslavna’s cry forces the forces of nature to help Igor escape from captivity and becomes a symbolic reason for the completion of the events described in “The Lay...”.
The story “Hare's Paws” is dedicated to the connection between man and nature, to a caring and compassionate attitude towards it. Vanya Malyavin brings to the veterinarian a hare with a torn ear and burnt paws, which brought his grandfather out of a terrible forest fire. The hare “cries,” “moans” and “sighs,” just like a person, but the veterinarian remains indifferent and instead of helping, gives the boy cynical advice to “fry him with onions.” The grandfather and grandson are trying their best to help the hare, they even take him to the city, where, as they say, the children's doctor Korsh lives, who will not refuse them help. Dr. Korsh, despite the fact that “all his life he treated people, not hares,” unlike a veterinarian, shows spiritual sensitivity and nobility and helps to treat an unusual patient. “What a child, what a hare - all the same”“, says the grandfather, and one cannot but agree with him, because animals, just like humans, can experience fear or suffer from pain. Grandfather Larion is grateful to the hare for saving him, but he feels guilty because he once almost shot a hare with a torn ear while hunting, which then brought him out of a forest fire.
However, is a person always responsive to nature and treats it with care, and understands the value of the life of any creature: a bird, an animal? in the story “The Horse with a Pink Mane” shows a cruel and thoughtless attitude towards nature, when children, for fun, hit a bird and a sculpin fish with a stone “torn to pieces... on the shore for looking ugly”. Although the guys later tried to give the swallow water to drink, but “She was bleeding into the river, could not swallow water and died, dropping her head.” Having buried the bird in the pebbles on the shore, the children soon forgot about it, busying themselves with other games, and they were not at all ashamed. Often a person does not think about the damage he causes to nature, how destructive the thoughtless destruction of all living things is.
In the story E. Nosova“Doll”, the narrator, who has not been to his native places for a long time, is horrified by how the once rich in fish river has changed beyond recognition, how it has become shallow and overgrown with mud: “The channel narrowed, became grassy, the clean sands at the bends were covered with cocklebur and tough butterbur, many unfamiliar shoals and spits appeared. There are no more deep rapids, where previously cast, bronzed ides drilled the river surface at dawn.<…>Now all this cankerous expanse is bristling with clumps and peaks of arrowleaf, and everywhere, where there are still no grasses, there is a black bottom mud, grown rich from the excess of fertilizers carried by the rains from the fields.”. What happened in Lipina Pit can be called a real environmental disaster, but what are its causes? The author sees them in the changed attitude of man to the world around him as a whole, not only to nature. A careless, unmerciful, indifferent attitude of people towards the world around them and towards each other can have irreversible consequences. The old ferryman Akimych explains to the narrator the changes that have taken place: “Many have become accustomed to bad things and do not see how they themselves are doing bad things.” Indifference, according to the author, is one of the most terrible vices that destroys not only the soul of a person himself, but also the world around him.
Works
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"
I. S. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”
N. A. Nekrasov “Grandfather Mazai and the Hares”
L. N. Tolstoy “War and Peace”
F. I. Tyutchev “Not what you think, nature...”
"Good attitude towards horses"
A. I. Kuprin “White Poodle”
L. Andreev “Bite”
M. M. Prishvin “The Forest Master”
K. G. Paustovsky “Golden Rose”, “Hare’s Paws”, “Badger Nose”, “Dense Bear”, “Frog”, “Warm Bread”
V. P. Astafiev “Tsar Fish”, “Vasyutkino Lake”
B. L. Vasiliev “Don’t shoot white swans”
Ch. Aitmatov “The Scaffold”
V. P. Astafiev “Horse with a pink mane”
V. G. Rasputin “Farewell to Matera”, “Live and Remember”, “Fire”
G. N. Troepolsky “White Bim Black Ear”
E. I. Nosov “Doll”, “Thirty grains”
"Love of Life", "White Fang"
E. Hemingway “The Old Man and the Sea”
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