關於大自然的經典英語美文

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　　：攝影與自然環境

　　Nature photography appeals to our nostalgiafor a time when we were more in harmony with the planet.

　　The old adage"a picture is worth a thousand words" needs to be rethought. More importantly, a picture can have the power to move a thousand hearts and change a thousand minds. Often, photographs bring to our eyes what we may have seen many times before, but not noticed. They can shed new light on the everyday and the ordinary. They can redirectthe course of our vision, so that we see, think, imagine and even, perhaps, act differently.

　　No doubt, one of the most pressing campaigns of our times is that for sustainabilityand environmental awareness. In the ruthless course of modernity, our approach to nature has been one of extractionand use. We urgently need to alter how we relate to the world around us and to re-educate ourselves in terms of the larger planetary scheme, hung, as it is, on a delicate ecological balance that is being dangerously disturbed by our many modern machinations in the name of science, technology, development and progress – and, dare I say it, capital.

　　Nature photography has become a potenttool in this struggle. Through it, we learn of the many others – the wondrousdiversity of flora and fauna – with whom we cohabiton this planet. It is also, as the Guardian's nature photography project reveals, a medium taken up by professionals and amateurs alike. So, what role does photography play in defining our relationship with nature? What do images of nature and wildlife tell us and why do we feel compelled to view them? Who among us has never been moved to snap a sunset on the horizon, a flowing river, a blossom in spring?

　　Our zealfor visually representing nature has a long and complex history. The adventof photography was celebrated as a milestone in the modernist quest to capture nature better. For early photography was largely devoted to documentary purposes and, in the apparent fidelityof its representations, the camera in the 19th century exceeded the naturalist drives of painters who, during the Renaissance and early modern period, tried to explore, and so tame, nature by rendering it into art.

　　Photography, however, is poised on a fine borderline between documentary and art. Never just one or the other, photographs can exceed the set frame. Moreover, the photographic frame can reveal the unsettling ability to extend and include us in its space. Photography is inclusive in its mediatoryrole. It extends covenants.

　　Often, nature photography calls on modern humanity's sense of nostalgia for a harmony between man and the environment. As John Berger has rightly stated, the way we see is conditioned by our history, and so it is that we may look at nature in terms of loss. As with the many images of the recent oil spilloff the coast of Florida, this can be founded in fact and so provoke a sense of culpability, a sudden awareness or questioning of our precepts and actions. Photographs lead us to rethink, to realignthe frame of our understanding.

　　The force of photography also lies in its playfulness. And by this, I mean the many overlapping discoveries of unvoiced knowledge, feelings and imagination that we stumble upon via images. So, the flipsideof loss or pathos can be a freshness of vision or a change of perspective. Above all, nature photography lends to our lives what we long ago lost in our modern abandonment of nature – the experience of wonderment, that sense of discovery, newness and awe.

　　Take, for example, Ernst Haas's images of dramatic skies, the elements and the seasons. His work, dramatic and inspiring, calls upon our pre-modern imaginations of the world at its most elemental, charged with a dynamic energy.

　　Photographs can also point out the extraordinary or magical in the seemingly irrelevant, as in Bolucevschi Vitali's prizewinning image of ants poised like dancers in stellar form. Modernised, urbanised and alienatedas many of us are, photographs remind us of nature's many complexities and subtleties. Or, as in Sebastio Salgado's on-going project Genesis that is linked to an equally challenging project at the Instituto Terra to restore Brazil's Atlantic rain forest, photography marries wonderment, amazement and joy to a well-defined and articulated commitment to the planet. It melds fracturesand helps envisage solidarity in our imbalanced and fractured world.

　　So what moves us to snap a sunset on the horizon, a flowing river, a blossom in spring? The photograph by itself is only a token of a moment gone by. Its power lies in the metaphor, for photography captures our minds more than we capture the subject.

　　In the case of nature photography, we discover that the battle for sustainability and environmental balance is not something fought "out there", in the distance, but one that ultimately returns us to the natural. Environmental photography matters, because it offers the lifeline of a bridge between our modern, denaturalised, mechanistic mores and the imperativeof nature within and without.

　　：熱愛大自然

　　what is nature? it’s everything that exists in the world independently of people, such as pants and animals, earth and rocks, and the weather. now more and more people are focusing on the nature. it is no doubt that the nature is important to every human being. no nature, no life. because of the supplies of the nature, we have lived happily for a long time. and we started to gain every thing available from the nature. and this lasted so long a time. today, people have discovered that the nature around is getting worse and worse.

　　what is threatening the nature? air and water pollution, overharvesting of plant and animal species, overpopulation and so on. overpopulation is the biggest source of pollution. let’s take overpopulation as an example.

　　what does overpopulation feel like? when we move slowly through the city in a tazi. when we enter a crowded slum district. when the temperature is high and when the air is thick with dust and smoke. the streets are crowded with people. the streets seem alive with people. people eating. people washing. people talking. people sleeping. people visiting each other, arguing and screaming. people relieving themselves. people pushing their hands through the taxi windows, begging. people leading animals. people, people, people, people. as we drive slowly through the crowd, sounding the taxi’s horn, the dust, heat, noise and cooking fires made it like a scene from hell! i admit, frightening.

　　to the nature, overpopulation is a big problem. more people, more pollution. and the big population is threatening the nature every second.

　　the rapid rise in world population is not creating problems only for the developing countries. the whole world faces the problem that raw materials are being used up at an increasing rate and food production can not keep up with the population increase. people in rich countries make the heaviest demands on the world’s resources, its food, fuel and land, and cause the most pollution. a baby born in the united states will use in his lifetime 30 times more of the world’s resources than a baby born in india. unless all the countries of the world take united action to deal with the population explosion there will be more and more people fighting for a share of less and less land, food and fuel, and the future will bring poverty, misery and war to us all.

　　for most of the developing countries, it is a good idea to control the population growth. for example, china has carried out birth control for years. and this plan has a great effect on the world population.

　　if the population continues to increase, if the air and water continue to be polluted, if we don’t do something to protect wild-plant and wildlife species will be declining. species and biological communities have difficulty adapting to change. economic opportunities and the quality of life of future generations are also put at risk. by protecting nature, we protect ourselves.

　　let’s unite together, hand in hand we stand all across the land.

　　we can make this world in which to live. hand in hand. control the population growth. take good care of our nature.

　　：Natural Resources

　　Nature has provided us with many kinds of resources. Almost everything we use in our everyday life comes from Nature. The food we eat, the water we drink, the clothes we wear, the concrete and bricks to build our houses, the materials to make bikes we ride, etc. , all come originally from Nature.

　　People have been making use of these natural supplies for thousands of years. With the development of technology and the increase of the population, the amount and range of materials taken has increased. It is estimated that this tread will continue in the years to come.

　　However, natural resouces are not in exhaustible. Some resources are already nearly used up. For example, the end of the world's fuel is already within sight. Such an essential daily item as water is in short supply in many parts of the world.We can no longer thoughtlessly use the many resources provided by. Nature. We must learn to conserve what remains.

　　自然資源

　　大自然給我們提供了各種資源。我們日常生活中幾乎所有的東西都來自大自然。我們吃的糧，喝的水，穿的衣，建房用的水泥、磚，生產自行車用的材料等，都來源於大自然。

　　人們對大自然的利用有幾千年的歷史。隨著技術的進步，人口的增加，自然資源的用量和範圍都急劇增加。據估計這種趨勢將與日俱增。

　　然而，自然資源並非取之不盡，用之不竭。有些資源幾乎已接近枯竭。例如，燃料資源匱乏已近在眼前。許多地方日常生活所必需的水已經供不應求。我們已不能再不加思索地使用大自然所賜予我們的資源了。我們必須學會儲存那些剩餘的資源。