A letter from the American Chief Seattle, written to the President of America, who wants their lands to be sold to them, is mentioned. It is an exemplary text that explains the relationship between nature and human and the relationship of modern man with nature. First of all, I would like to share a few sentences from this text.
"We are part of the world and that is our part. Fragrant flowers are our sisters; deer, horse, big eagle, these are our brothers, rocky hills, wetness in the meadows, foal body temperature and man, all belong to the same family.
We know this fact well: The earth belongs to the soil, not the human. And everything in this world is common and connected, like the blood that connects the members of a family. Therefore, any disaster that happens to the world is considered to have happened to human beings.
If we sell you our land, you should remember and teach your children that the rivers are our brothers and therefore you should show the love you show the rivers to any brothers.
I know, the white man doesn't think like us. For whites, one piece of soil is no different from another. The white man looks at what he wants from the soil and then goes on. Because the earth is not the friend of the white man, but the enemy. When the white man gets what he wants from the soil, he goes on other adventures. The white man looks at the land of his mother and the sky of his brother as something to buy, sell, cultivate and plunder. It is his ambition that he will desert the land and destroy everything.
One day, you will see eagles in the sky, forests covering the mountains have disappeared, wild horses have been tamed and everywhere is filled with the scent of human beings. That day will be the end of life and the beginning of the struggle to survive."
Just as we are entering the fasting month, if we turn fasting into an opportunity for the purification of the human soul and body, we should give our opportunity to renew and purify itself by revising our contact with nature. It is certain that nature, which carries the burden of the insatiable passion of humanity, needs some calmness. Because today's people have a structure that will destroy everything for their desires. The balance of nature, which is remembered as a result of natural disasters, after a while dismisses the agenda by using nature in a rough way.
In these times when people try to fit their lives home, we see that nature is breathing a little. The news that the hole in the ozone layer has decreased or visibility has increased due to the cleaning of the air are the most obvious indicators of this. Let's note this process that takes humanity to a compulsory diet in relation to nature. What should happen next is to go to a voluntary diet in the approach of man to nature. So nature's fasting is only like this. For this reason, establishing the relationship between nature and human beings through trust, not ownership, can be an important start.
As the Indian Chief said, this relationship, which is established through trust, will prevent people from using nature for its own comfort. The fasting of nature depends only on the restraint of the nafs towards human comfort. As long as it hinders human passion and comfort; The fasting of nature can purify itself from the burdens it casts on man. This fasting of nature can only spoil man's endless appetite and gluttony.