Good _____, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Kanyapat Pitaksarit as a representative from

Udonpittayanukoon school. My title is Can You Feel It? under the theme Nature Is A Common Language.

There’s a quote “like music and art, nature is a common language.” Do you believe that nature has the
same characteristics as music and art? Let’s think about it… When we listen to joyful music, we feel happy.
When we listen to soothing music, we feel relaxed. When we listen to sad music, we feel blue. As well as,
emotions inside the artists’ hearts and the story behind the artwork make it meaningful and unique. Anyways,
the question remains that how nature can be a common language?

When people travel to other places, they always take pictures of nature as memories and pass on the
beauty and peace of nature, and good feelings to other people by sharing those pictures, particularly on social
media because they want others to feel this elegance as well. Likewise, when we see every single picture or
video of nature, we recognize that it’s breathtaking and meaningful. Ladies and gentlemen, imagine that you
are standing among hundreds of trees and colorful flowers that are blooming with the warm rays of morning
sun. The wind is blowing gently and birds are singing softly. Can you feel serene and relaxed? Sometimes it’s
no need to explain how beautiful it is in words, we involuntarily feel delighted inside.

In addition, humans have a common sense that nature is important and necessary for our lives.
Therefore, we formed a large number of environmental organizations and contracts, including agreements to
cooperate in natural conservation, both for ourselves and later generations, for example CITES that stands for
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Spices of Wild Fauna and Flora, Greenpeace, World
Wildlife Fund, UNESCO, and many others.

Ladies and gentlemen, imagine again that you are diving in the ocean, then you see a sea turtle eating
plastic bag remnants. Do you feel sorry for it? Do you want to improve our nature?

Allow me to share my personal experience, last year I joined Trash Hero campaign as a volunteer
picking up trash in Koh Chang. Each volunteer was from different countries and most of them couldn’t speak
English. Even though we didn't understand each other's languages, we could still work for the same purpose.
We smiled and felt happy together. Besides recovering the environment on the island, I also realized that
many people from all over the world are ready to help one another to conserve nature.

Moreover, the bad side of nature can stimulate the deep feelings of humans. It contributes to the
expression of emotions. When a disaster occurs, many people feel full of compassion and pity. They are
willing to help victims even though those people have never met one another, never known each other, and
never even talked to each other before. In 2004, Indian Ocean earthquake caused the devastating tsunami
that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The victims themselves tried to help each other as much as they
could. And once this news spread on media, other people around the world felt the same way — sad and
depressed. They prayed for the victims and show their generosity by supporting in every way they could do.

In conclusion, nature certainly is not a system of communication in speech or writing, but it does have
the power to evoke humans’ feelings. It can connect us with the love of itself, bring us together in order to
conserve it for others, and make us become more united even with the absence of linguistic skills. In this
sense, nature truly is a common language. And what about you can you feel what nature tells us?