Direction for [ Question No: 111 To 115 ] :
Read the following passage and answer the questions given below :
Nature cannot be understood as a commodity, a resource; it can only be understood in romance. ‘Cities give not the human senses room enough.’ Richer aesthetic experiences are possible in forest and field-more to see, smell, touch, taste, more sense of space, time, place proportion. ‘In wilderness is the preservation of the world.’ Nature yields; Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline. The Planet’s endless circulations give us sustenance, life, life-support and prosperity. Nobler wants are served by the beauties of wood and sky. There is the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies. Such beauty is reciprocal and ancillary to human character and intellectual life.
Human life and society are, ought to be lived in continuity with ‘nature’. We should not look for the meaning of life in technological advances – hoping using electromagnetism to grow sozads quickly. Such accomplishment will never replace living out our three score and ten years with roots in the soil, enjoying the seasons, spring salads included.
Homosapiens is a microcosm, an epitome of compendium of nature, in whom nature comes to completion. Natural phenomena have their glory unrealized, until humans wake up to this, and this is a principal destiny of mankind. Emerson concludes his brooding over nature in the philosophical idealism that underlies all his thought : ‘Nature is the incarnation of a thought…..the world is mind precipitated.’ But it takes long to see this.
