作者说自然界的或植物，或动物对于英国的孩子越来越显得陌生，其实，中国的孩子的情况也是如此啊。他们打小起就远离了泥土，更别说什么自由地奔跑于田野之间了。我有一个7岁的小侄子回老家，见到啄木鸟，就问这种喜鹊的嘴怎么这么长啊。

According to this writer, children in the UK have become less familiar with animals and plants in nature. It is actually the same case for children in China. They have been removed from nature from an early age, needless to say, they haven't had the experience of running freely across fields. When my 7-year-old nephew returned to our old home and saw a woodpecker, he asked why that magpie had such a long beak.

我小的时候在野地里长大，自然环境是生活的一部分，我一直习以为常，直到有一年夏天我回来过暑假，发现屋边的那片树木消失地无影无踪、想种一盆兰花却再也找不到泥土的时候，我才意识到我的一些东西被剥夺了、我与自然的一些联系被割裂了。那一刻我甚至有哭的冲动，感觉自己的某个亲人被剥夺了。我觉得，对于那此与自然有着深厚感情的人和认识到自然对于自己的价值的人来说，环境问题首先是一个私人问题，而不是全球变暖和能源危机。
我举自己的例子是为了回应人为什么要亲近自然，为什么对自然有着精神需求。那是因为人本来就是自然，人的本性和根子中有一部分是生物学的，它需要和自然保持肉体上和精神上的亲近。生态心理学家罗杰克（Roszak）将人的心理中最深层的与自然相联系的部分称为生态无意识，类似于荣格的集体无意识，人需要在自然中体验自己生根于自然的感觉，还原到现实的层面，人就需要在情感上体验自然。但是这种生态无意识被压抑了，我们被从自然中割离了出来，这是现代城市化进程中一直发生的事实。
这篇文章中的例子非常能说明问题，也很让我受启发。我们现在肯定是回不去了，但是仍然可以花多一点的时间去亲近自然，让自已的“生态心理”保持健康。
生态文化方向的研究生,Shiblom Lu
http://blog.stnn.cc/luzhibo

When I was small I grew up in the wild countryside and the natural environment was a part of my life. All along, I was used to the natural environment, until one summer I came back for summer vacation and realized that the trees next to my house had disappeared without a trace. Like a pot of orchids that couldn’t find its dirt, I slowly realized that I had been deprived of something and that I had been split from my connection with nature. At that time I felt like crying, like I was split from a family member. I think that there are some people who have strong feeling for nature and who recognize that nature is worth a lot to them. They think that environmental issues are a personal issue and not about climate change or the energy crisis. I will use myself as an example to explain why people need to get close to nature, and why they have a spiritual need for nature. Since people originally came from nature, and their natural instincts and roots are biological, they need to stay close to nature to preserve their physical body as well as their spirit. Ecopsychologist Roszak said the deepest human psychological need was its connection with nature, and he called it the ecological unconscious. It is similar to Jung’s collective unconscious in that it people need to experience their own roots while being in nature to return to a plane of reality, and people need to experience nature emotionally. But we have been cut off from this ecological unconscious and we have been cut off from nature; this has happened thanks to urbanization. This article gives a good example of the problem; I find it very enlightening. There is no way we can go back now, but we can still spend a little more time getting close to nature, to keep our ecological spirit healthy.

Ecological culturally oriented graduate student, Shiblom Lu http://blog.stnn.cc/luzhibo (Translated by Michelle Deeter)

小时候在农村长大，每天放学后可以到草地、树林为家里的家畜打一些草，如给羊吃的槐树叶；每天早上起来，首先听到的是喜鹊、燕子等一些叫不出名字的鸟儿的歌唱声；在冬天的时候，可以在雪地里捕鸟；夏季可以偷偷的与一群小伙伴在小河里畅游、钓鱼。。。。。而现在一切已变成梦境。那时的一个冬天，政府部门一声令下，砍伐全部的树木，换上经济型银杏树，可以发家致富。一下子，所有一切全部是光秃秃的。鸟儿没有了；家畜也没有喜爱吃的树叶了；小河也变得发臭，每年必须清理；河流每年需要疏通，河床雨水一冲全部下塌。。。。。。就是那一年，导致这么多年的一直需要我们来承担这样的后果。而一窝蜂的改种，导致产品过剩，价格下跌，现在农民们有准备砍去这些变成废物的银杏树了。如此恶性循环，环境什么时候才能得以改善呢？----美丽天空

Growing up in the countryside,I collected grasses for herds from the grassland and woods, and fed goats with locust leaves. Every morning when I got up I could hear the twittering of magpies, swallows and some birds that I couldn't tell the name. When the winter came, we played catching birds in the snowfield, while in summer stealthily we went swimming and fishing in the brook with pals...... All above, However, have already become a dream for me. Once in a winter the government ordered the deforestation of all trees to convert to economic maidenhair trees which they believed could make us rich. All became bald at a sudden. Birds had gone; no tasted leaves for herds; creeks got smell and needed to be clean every year; rivers demanded to be dredged every year, and banks were crushed down in the wash of rains...... Actions of that exact year caused the consequences we undertook for years. But swarmed changing of the planting led to the over production and the fall of price, and farmers were prepared to cut those useless maidenhair trees. Vicious circle like this again and again, when could the environment get improved?---Beautiful Sky The comment was translated by Li Huan)