"Nature's Beauty Before"

Dear Diary,

Nature is one of the most important treasures of our environment. Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The term generally does not include manufactured objects and human interaction unless qualified in ways such as, human nature or the whole of nature. Nature is also generally distinguished from the supernatural. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the galactic. The word nature derives from the Latin word natura, or the course of things, natural character. Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis, which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. This is well shown in the first written use of the word in connection with a plant. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries. We benefit from nature. Some of the day to day needs of human beings can be found in nature. But as time to time passes by, and as the word technology grew bigger in our society, the beauty of nature slowly fade away. Before I see the tall trees of nature but now are tall infrastructure buildings. Before, I see the blue fresh waters of the sea and lakes, but now are contaminated and black, dirty waters. We learned how to cut down trees but can’t even plant another as a replacement. Human beings started to abuse the beauty of nature.

I can relate something to this topic. Before, my family and I used to have a picnic in Fuente Osmeña. This place was rich of green, tall grasses. You could even just sit in the ground without any cloth to cover on, because at that time it was a very clean place. But now, after five to six years, there are no more grasses to be found. Now the place is very dusty and don’t have any single grass to be found. Many addicts also stay there and sleep. It is very disgusting to see Fuente Osmeña now. Before, I used to sit on the green ground but now I prefer to sit on a bench. The maintenance for the cleanliness of the place was already deleted in the minds of the city government. If I were in their place, I would want to regain back Fuente’s beauty. This place was the most favorite hang-out before of some families, including me. I want to recall back the time when I still used to start walking, played and spent our Sundays in Fuente Osmeña. Those memories could never be erased in my mind.

So while it is not yet late, let us learn how to regain the beauty of nature.

Leslie ; )