Are we ready to listen?

What language Nature speaks?

Have you ever listened to the nature?
How can we understand how birds are communicating between them? And most important,
how do I know what my cat wants when she’s meowing?
In a sunny day of the last summer, while I was spending the weekend to the mountains I had
the chance to spend few hours wondering about the forest. The wind was mildly blowing
and several noisy birds were… just talking to each other. What were they saying? I tried to
find out but it seems they were complaining about their kids which were playing too much.
Or not, it didn't matter anyway, everything was so peaceful that you could hear the trees
growing. By the way, how are the trees communicating? What if the leaves rustling in the
wind is actually the way the trees are communicating with us? We will not know for sure but
I believe they are trying to tell us something. Maybe they are telling us that we are cutting
too many of their brothers and soon the forest will be just a memory.
Suddenly I saw a small bird that seems to look at me and then chirping in a tree. I wonder if
she didn't like my hat and made that publicly. That was not nice because I like my hat, it is
quite nice.
Suddenly, the chirping became more acute and when I was looking up I saw a hawk getting
closer. Hey, thank you for warning me but the hawk is not a threat for me but for you! The
day spent in the forest taught me that the nature is communicating not only within itself but
also with us. I promised myself to pay more attention to what surrounds us.
Another day I was going to the beach with my friends. What about the sea, have you ever
just sit still on the seashore and listen? Aren’t the waves telling us….things? Maybe nice
stories about Nemo or Dory or just…stories.
Or maybe the sea is warning us that we are polluting too much its waters, or maybe is just
saying “Hello beautiful!” What if. All living things are communicating and probably are trying
to tell us something.
Are we ready to listen?

Vasile Adriana-Teodora
Clasa a 9-a A