grow out from seeds, he had hunted for wild life in the valleys, he had reared animals, he had marveled at hills and mountains.
As Abraham grew out of his countryside life into city life, he observed that he had indeed lost some virtue that he would have garnered if he were at the countryside. As often as he could, he tried as much as possible to go take some good air around the countryside. He thus increasingly appreciated the life in the countryside. It was his admiration of this life, which pushed him to ask his son’s teacher to ensure his son had good time to visit the countryside and appreciate this life.
There is quite a lot to learn from nature. God entwined virtues in the little creatures like the ants, spiders, termites etc. that man can find interesting to learn with principles to apply in everyday life. Even man has compared situations with these natural creations. We have seen problems as mountains that will become valleys. We have seen ants as examples of hard workers, we have seen spiders as examples of un-limitation having had to see them in kings’ palaces, we have seen tortoise as smart and wise. Man has compared strength to the horse, longsuffering to the donkey, stubbornness to the goat and meekness to the sheep. The list is endless.
If you do take your time to study nature, you would observe that you could learn values that will stay with you. The birds in the sky soar, and when you do see them happy and tweeting their way, you build up the joy that life can offer when you choose to soar. You do want to soar over your challenges. The birds can build you up. Abraham Lincoln received motivated from nature. He knew the power in nature. The plants have healing capabilities that healed the body of ailments and still do and when he felt like ill, he found solace in those herbs.
There is enormous power in nature. Teachers have to realize this and help their wards appreciate this too. Teachers should convey students on excursions to natural parks where they can learn about this animals and plants. Teachers also should be up to date with the animals and plants and what messages they transmit. Parents should develop the habit of outdoor walk. They should take their kids for strolls in the countryside. They do have to take their wards to amusement parks and natural parks where they can observe nature and have a grasp of what nature can give.
In nature, there are ups and down, hills and valleys, day and night, sun and moon. The inspiration drawn from this is that there will sure be goods time and difficult times but like the birds of the sky that soars over the mountains and valleys, you can and will soar high above your challenges.
Children have to learn the virtues imbedded in animals and be thought to develop those character attributes too. Students should know that however irrelevant an insect seems or however little an animal may seem, they are very important to the cycle of life as they play their role to see through the oxygen cycle, carbon dioxide cycle and the nitrogen cycle.
Children should learn the need to protect and develop methods to protect our ecological variety that is fast dwindling because of the high rate of poaching and agricultural activities. Abraham Lincoln would not have had a nature to talk about to his ward if the natural habitats had been destroyed before his time.
The environment remains one of man’s biggest gifts from God. Man is fast losing our natural habitats to wrong activities he perpetrates. Parents have a duty to build in their wards responsibility for their environment and the need to safeguard it.
Teachers too have a role in this regard too. As custodians of knowledge, they do have the responsibility to show by example how they are saving nature by their actions.
For us to continue to enjoy the fascination offered by nature, we do have to protect those creatures. God will be glad you did this for the children of posterity.