let e bein y speeh with a replay of senes failiar to ost, if not all, of those present here today.
"u, i' sorry, but i need 3,000 yuan for y tuition this year."
"u, it is y friend's birthday toorrow, i ust buy her a present."
"u, this jaket was out of fashion lon ao, would you do e a favor? "
take. take. take. the relationship between a other and a hild always sees to follow suh a pattern. i know y other is always there for e, providin e with everythin i need; fro food to lothin, fro tuition to poket oney. i never thouht twie about all she did until one day she said, "will there be a tie that you'll say you have taken enouh fro e? "
like a hild endlessly askin, we huans, throuhout history, have been ontinually deandin what we desire fro nature. we enjoy the ofort and beauty of our furniture, yet we never bother to think about the serious soil erosion aused by deforestation. we take it for ranted that we ust war ourselves in winter ties, yet we seldo realie the burnin away of preious natural resoures. we appreiate all the prosperity fro the developent of odern industry, yet few would ive the slihtest onsideration to the lobal air and water pollution aused by industrial wastes. our ruthless exploitation has peranently ipaired our other earth. as we traially learned fro last suer's floods. we annot ontinue our arelessness.
finally, standin here at the threshold of the 21st entury, we annot help thinkin of our posterity. nature is not only the other of the present eneration, but also the other of the enerations to oe. how severely our desendents will ritiie us if we leave the a barren and lifeless other? how uh ore they will appreiate us if we ive the a world of harony to inherit? let us start respetin and arin for nature fro now on. let us start the apain of reatin a utually benefiial relationship between people and nature riht fro this oent. with this new start, i firly believe, that our hildren, and our hildren's hildren will live in a brand new ae of reen trees, lean air, rystal water, blue sky and an even ore proisin world!
译文:自然是我们的母亲
请允许我用一个我们今天在座的大部分人，就算不是全部，都很熟悉的场景来展开我的演讲。
“妈妈，不好意思，今年的学费要三千元。”
“妈妈，明天是我朋友的生日，我要给她买份礼物。”
“妈妈，这件衣服早过时了，帮我买件新的，好吗?”
索取，索取，再索取。母亲和孩子的关系似乎永远都是这一种形式。我知道母亲总是我的靠山，给我一切需要的东西，从食物到衣服，从学费到零用钱。我觉得她所做的一切都是理所当然的，直到有一天，她说:“会不会有这么一天你对我说我已经索取够了?’’
就像孩子无止境的要求一样，我们人类，从古到今，也一直在向自然索求以满足欲望。我们享受家具的美丽与舒适，但我们从来就不愿去想一想由于采伐树林而引起的严重的土壤侵蚀问题。我们认为冬天要取暖是理所当然的事情，却未曾意识到宝贵的自然资源就这样被烧掉。我们高兴地看到现代工业发展带来了繁荣，但很少人会对由于工业废物导致的全球空气和水质污染问题稍加考虑。我们无情的剥削已经永远地伤害了地球母亲。我们从去年夏天的洪灾悲剧中已经认识到，我们不能再继续漠不关心下去了。
最后，站在21世纪的门槛上，我们不禁展望着繁荣昌盛。自然不仅是现在这一代人的母亲，更是未来一代人的母亲。如果我们留给他们的是一位贫瘩、毫无生气的母亲，那么我们会受到子孙们何等严厉的批评?如果我们留给他们的遗产是一个和谐的世界，他们会对我们作出何等的称赞?让我们从现在开始尊重、关爱自然。让我们立刻开展一场建立人类与自然互惠互利关系的运动。我坚信，有了这个新的开始，我们的孩子、孩子的孩子必将生活在一个绿树青葱、空气清新、水碧天蓝的崭新世纪，一个前景更加灿烂的世界!