Nature Is Not What You Think by Fyodor Tyutchev. Short summary

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The author describes the course of events in nature and views an ordinary leaf as part of the cycle of life in the human environment.

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According to Tyutchev, many people believe that nature is a soulless face, which is fundamentally inconsistent with the real state of affairs. Fyodor Ivanovich argues that the environment around us has a soul. He also believes that it can love, speak in a language that only it understands, and value true freedom. The creative figure asks his own readers to pay attention to the most ordinary leaf growing on a tree. The poet asks the rhetorical question of whether some gardener has glued it there.

The author says that external forces (human civilization) have nothing to do with the development of the fetus in the mother’s body either. Some individuals, according to Tyutchev, prefer not to notice the breath of the sun and the life boiling in the waves of the sea. Fyodor Ivanovich adds that spring never bloomed in the breasts of the aforementioned persons, and the forests immediately became silent in their presence.