Getting along with Nature

• The defenders of nature and wilderness sometimes seem to feel that they must object to any human activities of occupying more of nature and wilderness, just as the industrialists often seem to feel that they must make a total human occupying of nature or, as they say, “complete the conquest of nature.”
五、 2.Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.(p5,L18)
• How do you understand the statement? (从上文找答案） • Nature not only provides us with plentiful resources but also sets the restriction on the quantity of resources we are allowed to take and use.
• • • • • This conflict: the conflict between human and nature Probable 比 Possible的可能性大一些。 Vice verse:用于表示情况相反时也成立。 很奇怪的事是他喜欢的书，我都不喜欢;反之亦然。 It’s strange that any book he likes, I don’t, and vice versa.
After analyzing the article, what can we learn about the author’s opinion? Does the author believe that humans get along well with nature?
• The author points out pros and cons of the two types of defenders and concludes by saying that by diminishing either nature or man, the other is also diminished. • We can learn that he doesn’t believe that humans get along well with nature. Because he illustrates the complexity and adversary relationship man has with nature as well as the need to better it.
1.The defenders of nature and wilderness sometimes seem to feel that they must oppose any human encroachment whatsoever, just as the industrialists often apparently feel that they must make the human encroachment absolute or, as they say, “complete the conquest of nature.”(段p1，L4)
• What does “which” refer to? • 所以，在斯宾塞的诗中，富饶和秩序的自然原则明显的与司 法原则联系在一起，我们颇为惊奇地看到他也将此归于自然 。 • Therefore, Spenser thinks that the natural principles of fertility and order are obviously connected with the principle of justice. This linking of justice to nature may surprise us.
九、 6.But, do what we will, we remain under the spell of the primeval forests and prairies that we have cut down and broken; we turn repeatedly and with love to the thought of them and to their surviving remnants.
• But, no matter what we do in spite of having destroyed great forests and prairies, we still feel, respond, and are drawn to their majesty; we continue to think longingly about the destroyed ancient forests and prairies and the small pieces of wilderness that still exists. • Spell：vt. 拼写；意味着；迷住；招致；轮值 • n. 符咒；一段时间；魅力 • vi. 拼字；轮替 • Be under the spell of: be attracted by
• 事实上，也许它们（蓟花）并不总是不适宜在草原上；看起 来很明显，如果过度放牧能形成植物理想的苗床，那么我们 必须把它看作是大自然保护地面不被动物过度使用的策略的 一部分。 • Be out of place in: be unsuitable in
十、 8.But we are learning, or relearning, something else, too, that frightens us: namely, that this conflict often occurs at the expense of both estates. It is not only possible but altogether probable that by diminishing nature we diminish ourselves, and vice verse.
Getting along with Nature
• 一、 • In the first paragraph, the author makes a brief description of the similarity and dissimilarity the two types of defenders hold in their attitudes towards nature and humans. • The similarity is in that both the defenders of nature and wilderness and the defenders of industrialization base their arguments on the assumption that there are two distiபைடு நூலகம்ct conditions, one natural and the other industrial. • The dissimilarity is that the former opposes human encroachment and the latter want to make human encroachment complete.
7.They may, in fact, not always be out of place in pastures; if, as seems evident, overgrazing makes an ideal seedbed for these plants, then we must understand them as a part of nature’s strategy to protect the ground against abuse by animals.
3.Her jurisdiction is over the relations between the creatures; she deals “Right to all … indifferently,” for she is “the equal mother” of all “And knittest each to each, as brother unto brother.”(页P126,L4)
• 我们也明白，比起那种像跷跷板一样前后失衡，需要从一端 甩掉其他过剩生物的平衡，这种稳定的平衡更为可取。 • Be preferable to : be better than • 难道你不同意健康而无财富比有财富而不健康好得多的这种 说法吗？ • Don’t you agree to the statement that health without wealth is preferable to wealth without health?
• 由于她是众生“提供均等机会的母亲，她给众生“公正地分 配权利”，“把人们像兄弟一样紧密地团结在一起”。 • Her rule is over all living creatures; she gives rights to all creatures impartially, because she is a fair-minded mother and she joins all creatures together in the same way that brother is tied to brother.