Green, symbolizing vitality, life force.
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I like the green, like the lush green grass, like the trees green; I long for the green, longing for our home on earth as many years ago, the streams babbling, the trees verdant. Humans have just swept through, and many of the newborn saplings have had their upper limbs amputated.
"Woo -, my life is really bitter, hateful human broke my arm, so how can I grow tall? How can I become useful to humans?" The sapling's eyes filled with tears
The grass beneath him heard the sapling's sobs and sighed: "We two are in the same boat. That hypocritical human mouth said 'do not trample on the lawn' but always in order to take a shortcut, in my body heavily stepped over. Che, saying one thing and doing another, hypocritical."
The little flower also dropped teardrops: "Me, me too. People only look at my momentary beauty, once I wither, they will mercilessly drive me out of the vase and throw me on the ground. Don't, don't--"
Before the words could be finished, people took another step forward with chainsaws. Not long ago just still talking about their miserable fate of the saplings, grass, flowers are gone, the earth and less a green.
Green is the color of life. We need green, we can not leave the green. The green forest is a big umbrella to protect us from the wind and rain, bring us shade, purify the air for us, and so on.
Protection of green, we have to environmental protection. Always keep environmental protection in mind, treat it as a seed, water it with the heart, let it grow strong
In order to build a green ecology, in order to build our green home, let us join hands, together, from the love of flowers and plants to do, to protect the green!
My home 2
My family lives in a garden-type neighborhood, surrounded by green grass, lush grass, as if the paradise, it is - Xinhai District
In the spring, everything is recovering, the neighborhood suddenly became vibrant. The trees sprouted, the buds come together in groups to whisper. Flowers, grass from the soil to poke their heads, looking at this beautiful world, as if everything is so fresh, curious. Mr. Bee and Miss Butterfly came to the flowers to hold a grand ball. They danced and sang, and it was so enviable!
In summer, the trees are verdant. There are so many trees! Row by row, column by column, together, like children like hand in hand; trees really green ah, green as if coated with green dye; tree varieties are really many ah, there are standing poplar, there is the willow with the wind, there is a strange shape of the banana tree, and ...... simply countless!
In the fall, the leaves are yellow, they will float down a few pieces anytime, anywhere, fluttering, as if stamps. The small fish in the stream almost make a mess; sometimes leaping out of the water, leaving ripples; sometimes swimming like lightning, as if in a race; sometimes naughty blowing a few bubbles, in the sunlight, they change color from time to time.
In winter, flowers withered, cold wind. Only the frosty cedar swaying in the wind and snow. The creek is frozen, and the fish are gone. In the morning, you can also find a layer of crystal clear frost in the bald grass!
In front of my house there is a square and a clear brook, which flows in a simple stream. In the center of the square is a stone statue, the look is very special: five lions wearing crowns lifted up the front feet, lifting a carved dragon ball. Around it is a large lawn, behind which are wooden chairs. There is a bridge over the stream. Every sunny day, there are many uncles and older men fishing in the stream, everyone is very serious: this uncle skillfully cast the rod, quietly waiting for the small fish on the hook; the uncle while smoking, while preparing the fishing gear. The first time I saw them, they were so serious that I couldn't bear to disturb them.
My home is unique, it has a beautiful environment, wide spacing, innovative design, convenient transportation, comfortable living characteristics!
I love my home!
My Home 3My home is in the North End, which is a very beautiful place.
The North District is located in the northwest of the Shaogang field, if it is outside to see the North District, may feel that this is just a common neighborhood, but if you walk in to watch, you will feel that there are other places. In this beautiful neighborhood, trees flourish, flowers compete, grass green grass, rows of residential buildings are neatly arranged. Let people unconsciously like this place.
In this beautiful neighborhood, there are not only rows of flowers, trees, houses, there is a favorite place for children, that is, the square. Every weekend as soon as the evening, the square will come out of the sound of many children playing and frolicking together. And in the evening, there will be some old people in the square exercise equipment to strengthen their bodies.
In the center of the square, there is a very large banyan tree, tall and majestic this word to describe it is the best. The tree has four characteristics: high, big, thick trunk, and many branches and leaves. No matter which one of those features it has, there is no tree in the North District that can compare to it. It is high, it is on both sides of the six-story building have to look up to it; it is big, a building is not big enough; its trunk is thick, four people hand in hand to hold over; it has many branches and leaves, from a distance like a huge mushroom. Just because of these four characteristics, all the people have not denied that it is huge.
This is my beautiful home.
My hometown is in the Madabian group of Gucheng Town, Majiang County, Guizhou Province, where the scenery is beautiful and the view is pleasant, and it is like a big beautiful garden in my heart.
The hometown is surrounded by the group on, as if a big green velvet ball. There are evergreen pine trees on the mountain, and when spring comes, the grass pokes its head out of the ground, as if it were the eyebrows of a big mountain. The small trees drew out new branches, like the beard of the mountain. Green grass, green leaves, bright flowers of all colors seem to gather as if in a hurry, adding infinite fun for the mountain.
From the mountain to look down, most of the scenery below the mountain as far as the eye can see. At the bottom of the mountain there is a nameless lower river, which flows slowly through the center of the hometown. There is a field under the mountain, and every time the rape flowers bloom, the large field looks like a golden ocean, and when a wind blows, the field swings up in a wave of golden waves.
Most people in my hometown have a lot of flowers in front of and behind their houses, like orchids, chrysanthemums, daffodils, and so on. They follow the season, open in an orderly manner, simple with a few gorgeous, showing a unique scenery of the countryside people's homes. Behind my house there are two fruit trees, the trees have a lot of birds, in the very silent time, birds in the trees chirping, to the silent home added a lot of vitality.
Most of the people in the hometown are farmers, they live and labor very hard, whenever the people in the hometown go to play rice, will be tired straight sweat, that a red face, stained with a layer of operating sweat, shining in the sunlight.
To the height of summer, in the evening, people are tables and chairs in their own courtyard, the sky is high and wide to eat dinner. After dinner, while blowing a cool breeze, while enjoying the sky's evening sunshine, beautiful evening sunshine than the city's television programs. When the moon is bright and people are quiet at night, the weaver will start to sing its beautiful song, which is better than a lullaby, so that people who have labored for a day sweetly enter the dreamland.
This is my beautiful home, I love it.
My home 5
Yuhang is a beautiful place, my home is there in a small village called Changhong village.
In the morning, the gauze-covered lake water is gentle and turquoise blue, and the white mist floats above the pool water. Add a little mystery to the pool water. It seems like a graceful girl veiled, not letting others see themselves. The sun slowly rose, put out a golden light, white fog disappeared, Xu shimmering light fell on the surface of the pond, the pond water is like a mirror, the light reflected to the pond side of the willow body, seems to put on a layer of golden yellow coat for the willow. The surface of the pool sparkling, in the wind caress, ripples. From time to time, there are birds kissing its face, it eagerly served manna; from time to time, there are fish leaping out of its embrace, it tenderly called.
The pond is alive with cheerful fish, and the water reflects the green trees, which are green as jasper at this time, and the green water embraces the midday sun. Water plants in the pond are also very striking, in sunny weather, people will see a string of bubbles from the bottom of the pond, which is the water plants absorb sunlight photosynthesis and the release of oxygen bubbles. Water plants are the habitat and shelter of many aquatic animals.
The night came, everything is back to calm, birds do not call, chickens do not chirp, ducks do not make noise. People say that the color of the mountains change, and in fact, the color of the pool is also changeable, if you stand in a high place to look at the surface of the pool, in front of the eyes of a cool blue water, if you pay attention to look, close to your sight is the scales of the shining lake, like millions of silver fish in the swim, and far away from the spread of the mirror, there is no point of dust or no one swimmer's intrusion. The color of the lake gets deeper and deeper the farther away you go, and from near to far, it is silver-white, light blue, dark cyan, and dark green, with very distinct boundaries.
My Home 6I am a sapling, born in 20xx, and when I am 50 years old, which is 2100, I am already unique in this world. I don't know the specifics, all I know is that when I was very young, there was a great disaster where I lived, and in this disaster, my relatives, my friends died.
And at that time I was just born, weak and sickly, so no one could see my small and thin body, and I was lucky to survive!
My family and friends must be watching and envying me every day from heaven. I was surrounded by layers of iron bars and had countless people coming to see me every day. Although I was treated so well, I was still very sad because I was surrounded by nothing but skyscrapers, people and cars coming and going, and the dark, black air containing exhaust fumes from cars and factories, and there was not even a single companion who could chat, talk, frolic and play with me.
I wanted to scream and tell the whole world how lonely and sad my heart was!
After another 10 years - 2110 - I came of age. Spring is almost here one night, the spring girl came in a hurry, the reason why she came in such a hurry, because the spring grandma ground to her a very important task: with magic to 110 years ago happened in my dream play again - their own loved ones, friends by human beings to the annihilation of this matter.
As soon as I woke up, I told the dream to my uncle, who thought I would try to take revenge on humans, but I didn't realize that the next morning, the land was a branch, and my uncle was puzzled and asked me, "What are you going to do?" I told Uncle Land and said, "I'm going to plant a lot of babies, and I'm going to show people how much good it will do to have a lot of trees and a lot of green!"
After about 50 more years, my babies grew up little by little and understood; I also grew old age little by little, but the world is getting better and better, more and more green.
I hope my home can always be like this!
My home 7
My family lives in a garden-style neighborhood, surrounded by green grass, lush grass, like heaven, it is - Tushan Garden.
In the spring, everything revives, and the neighborhood comes alive. The trees sprouted, and the buds came together in groups to whisper. Flowers, grass from the soil to poke their heads out and look at this beautiful world. Mr. Bee and Miss Butterfly came to the flowers to hold a grand ball.
In summer, the trees are verdant. The trees are so many, rows and columns, connected together; the trees are so green, as green as if they had been painted with green dye; there are so many varieties of trees, there are standing poplars, there are willows floating in the wind, there are banana trees with peculiar shapes, and there are also ``````
In the fall, the little fish in the river make a mess: sometimes they leap out of the water sponges, leaving behind rippling ripples; sometimes they swim in the lightening; sometimes they blow a few The first thing you need to do is to get a little bit of a good look at the water. The leaves of the trees are yellow, and will float down a few pieces anytime, anywhere.
In winter, the flowers withered, cold wind. The river is frozen, and the small fish are gone. In the morning you can also find a layer of crystal clear frost in the grass!
In front of my house, there is a square and a clear river, the river is flowing. In the center of the square is a stone statue, the look is very special: five lions wearing crowns lifted up the front feet, lifting a carved dragon ball. Surrounded by a large lawn, behind the lawn is a wooden chair. There is a 10-meter-wide, 15-meter-long bridge over the river, with three arched holes underneath. Every sunny day, there are many uncles and older men fishing in the river, everyone is very serious: this uncle skillfully throw down the fishing rod, quietly waiting for small fish on the hook; that uncle while smoking, while preparing fishing gear. The first time I saw them, they were so serious that I couldn't bear to disturb them.
My home is unique, it has a beautiful environment, wide spacing, innovative design, convenient transportation, comfortable living characteristics, I love my home!
My home 8My home in Wulian, a tall building, a straight road, clear and transparent beautiful Hongning River is a good place for people to relax and enjoy ......
My father said to me, we are now Wulian changes a lot, ushered in a new opportunity to draw on the peninsula urban cluster, the east does not rely on the coastal The city of Qingdao, Qingdao, west of the hot springs, there are two prestigious Wulian Mountain, Nine Immortal Mountains. Under the mountain there is a good big, is preparing to build a large reservoir - Longtanggou Reservoir, "Wow!" I was so excited that I asked, "Take me there, okay?" Dad nodded happily.
The next day Sunday, we sat in the car wanted to Longtangou set off. July season is particularly hot, rainy, roadside flowers and grasses compete for color, dense foliage through the square outside the heat wave fluttering over, a burst of really good! With a curious and happy mood, I came to the Longtan ditch, a long way to hear the sound of crashing water, hard to climb up, climbed over a mountain, Dad let me appreciate the beauty of it? Wow! It's so beautiful! Alpine water into an ocean, where the water is clear and transparent, shining out of the human shadow. I cupped my hands and drank from the spring, it was so sweet! The water here is too sweet. Why is such good water placed here? Dad pointed to the front of the site, said: that is not preparing to build a reservoir, the water here to Rizhao, Rizhao people to solve the problem of hard water. A small reservoir has a big role to play!
The sun is in the west, I really want to leave ah, step by step, pick up a small stone, bang! Throw into the water made a wave. From the mountains flowing down the water, like a beautiful painting, I can not help but think of "look Lushan waterfalls" "flying straight down three thousand feet, suspected that the Milky Way fell nine days." Ah! I love the mountains and waters of my hometown!
My home 9
The home of the birds is the forest, the home of the fish is the river, the home of the earthworms is the soil, we *** with the home is the Earth.
The home of my heart is a harmonious and beautiful, full of joy, green summer, birdsong and flowers, the river tinkling tinkling tinkling play.
When I get up in the morning, the trees that have just awakened, the slightly salty wind, the glassy blades of grass, the damp earthy smell, the crisp sparrow chirping, the air filled with the sweet aroma of fruit juices ...... and the furious Lingxiao, the reddish-purple or light-blue petunias, the eggshell-thin static ... ...
Mom made a hearty breakfast table, there is the aroma of bread, a crescent-shaped sausage, a cup of deliciously sweet juice ...... look mouth-watering!
After eating I began to write homework, I always frowned, my father looked at the smile came to my side, carefully and seriously to me to tell every question, sometimes there will be angry contradictions, but always with laughter and end.
Time passes too quickly, unknowingly to noon!
The midday sun shines hot on the body, a gust of breeze blowing over, the birds in the trees singing a crisp and pleasant song, the flowers pavilion, showing a bright smile.
I leaned under the tree with a book read with great interest, from time to time to appreciate the surrounding environment, look into the distance, close your eyes for a long time to figure out, body flavor it.
Staying in love, from time to time into the dream, in the dream is still recalling it.
After a long time the ears rang a moving voice: "Baby! Baby!" I opened my eyes and found my mom sitting beside me, it was dusk now.
Ah! The sun is so radiant, emitting a fiery red, fiery red light, dyeing the West red, as if who accidentally spilled the red ink, the red light shines on the clouds, so that the clouds turn into a variety of colors, there are red, purple, green, golden ...... like a masterful painter carefully drawn pictures! How beautiful, how gentle, how warm, how cozy, unforgettable, the setting sun reflects the mother's face, how beautiful!
Here there are no shackles, no constraints, no shackles, no impositions, no exploitation, no oppression, no violence, no conflict, everything is as it should be, as it should be, happy, happy.
I hope everyone has their own home, can grow up happily and get their own happiness!
My home 10I now always have this thought from time to time: now there are a lot of people do not protect the environment, are destroying the environment, I really do not know the future of the earth will become what a garbage bag flying world. I hope people will wake up, protect the environment, and turn the earth into my ideal!
The beautiful home in my mind is like this: Whenever we just open our eyes every morning, the first into their ears is the crisp insect chirping birds, the first to see is the lush green trees and grass, and is a large tree neatly arranged outside, grass all over the place, vibrant in all directions, green green; leaves on the trees, red red, a little bit of dust is not, attracted the countless fat wasps to float on them, and play games with butterflies of all sizes, fighting and fooling around. Coming to the flowing stream, one could see at a glance the underwater fish frolicking freely. That stone looks like set in transparent crystal pear colorful stone, in the sunlight, that crystal colorful stone glittering, looks more beautiful. That is, people now walk the road are turned into soft grass, if walking tired, can always lie down on it to sleep. If someone steps on the ground dirty, the grass will also make themselves clean.
The environment has become beautiful and picturesque, people's mood is naturally better, naturally there is less noise, there will be no noise garbage. During the day, there are neighbors and neighbors sit together to eat a meal, society has become much more harmonious. Students, if we protect the environment, the world will become a better place! Students, act quickly to protect the earth we live on it, otherwise, the last hurt or human beings themselves!
My home 11I live in the neighborhood Jiangnan Xinyuan is a full of life in the neighborhood, although it is not too large, but inside the facilities are all complete. There are four gates in the neighborhood: the east gate, the west gate, the south gate and the north gate, of which, the north gate is the main gate, speaking of which, you must have been impatient. Now, I will take you to visit the introduction of my neighborhood!
From the north gate in, you will see a fountain at first glance: it has several layers in the middle, and there are some flowers around it; when it is sunny, it will also spray water, which is the sign of the main gate.
Behind the fountain is the clubhouse, which is a place for people in the neighborhood to relax and have fun, and there are some interest classes and two big swimming pools, which are both a place for adults to exercise in the summer and a paradise for children to play in the water when the hot summer comes.
Now we go to the left of the clubhouse, and then walk through a stone path, we came to a lush grove, there is a small piece of green grass in the woods, grass in front of a small pond, which has a few lotus, there are also many koi carp swim to swim. There is also a bridge over the pond, the end of the bridge is also planted with several bamboo, probably the ancient saying, "I would rather eat meat, not live without bamboo" it!
We now go to the right side of the clubhouse to take a look, where there is a rockery with a few large stones piled up. When the sun is out, there are occasionally a few cats lying on the rocks to sunbathe. There is also a man-made waterfall on the rockery, which flows down a "stream" to a "lake".
Next to the rockery is a small lake. There is an octagonal pavilion on the lake, followed by a curved bridge, where people can feed the fish or watch the scenery from the pavilion.
Immediately to the right of the lake, there is a labyrinth surrounded by green plants is a good place to hide. I used to play "hide and seek" there.
Behind the labyrinth there is a small field. In the morning, it was a place to exercise. In the afternoon after school time, this has become a playground for children.
Jiangnan Xinyuan is a beautiful home, welcome you have time to come here as a guest.
My home 12
I have been living in the park lake on the highest cedar tree. Because I am a minor bird, when I was young, the elders around me would instruct me that the humans in the park are quite friendly and that I don't need to run far away from them as soon as I see them. So when I was happy, I would fly up and down beside people, and was often rewarded with a smile. My lively and mischievous character has also helped me make many animal friends.
Throughout the winter, I was looking forward to spring. That way I will be able to skim over the early spring just bloomed flowers, a little paddle across the sparkling spring water to play. But for some reason, the sun always refuses to show up these days, and the sky is always foggy. The park is starting to get less and less people, and even if they do come, they are just walking around with a mask on.
After flying for a long time, I finally saw my good friend Harry the dog, who greeted me with a downcast head and said lazily: "Bad weather, a lot of friends are sick. They're at the vet hospital getting shots and medicine, and they can't even come out to play." "How come!" I asked in surprise. "The fog." Two words I'd never heard before popped out of Harry's mouth. I looked up into the sky in the direction he was pointing and there were indeed some small granular droplets in the air, and upon closer inspection, there was a cloud of dust particles in the droplets. "No wonder my throat always feels a little sore when I sing these days, so it's the dust in the air that's doing it!" The realization dawned on me. Harry shook his head hopelessly and said goodbye to me, "Hey, if this keeps up, my master won't be bringing me outdoors to play anymore. We may never see each other again."
Looking at Harry's back as he walked away, I began to worry. If it's really like what Harry said, what will the park become in the future? In my head, those two lines of the old poem that I once heard the children chanting "Birds fly away from a thousand mountains, people disappear from ten thousand paths" popped up suddenly. I shuddered at the thought of that dismal scene and almost forgot to flap my wings and fall to the ground. Here is my beautiful home ah, but in the face of the haze, I myself really can not help it.
After some deep research, I finally remembered that there is something important to do, and hurriedly flew to the depths of the bushes. I'm going to find some clean leaves, and quickly make masks for my bird partners ......
My Home13My home is at the foot of the beautiful and rich Changbai Mountain.
Here is rich in produce, there are eating mountain wild vegetables, such as: monkey legs, red tender buds, big leaf celery, ferns, etc. are natural green food, non-toxic and harmless. There are wild mushrooms: monkey mill, gramercy mill, frozen mill, yellow mill, mountain fungus and many other mushrooms. There are also medicinal herbs: wild ginseng, asparagus, wood ganoderma lucidum, immortelle, rhodiola rosea, chai hu, deer antler and many other medicinal herbs, which are used to cure liver disease, heart disease, rheumatism, headache, kidney disease, and beauty. There are also many wild fruits, the local abundance of blue plum fruit, mountain grapes, Yuan Zaozi, mountain pear, Schisandra and so on, they can make wine, can make juice, can beauty. In Changbai Mountain, there are big Tianchi, small Tianchi, underground deep forest, alpine garden, in the alpine garden grows a lot of flowers, some flowers can also make tea, these flowers make tea are good for physical and mental health, green food.
Changbaishan Mountain, there are "three thousand feet, suspected that the Milky Way fell nine days" waterfalls, and 2741 meters above sea level, the main peak, as well as up to dozens of degrees of hot springs, can be boiled eggs, which boiled eggs are also very special, but also very tasty, do not believe that you come to taste it. All these are the scenery of Changbai Mountain, there are many more, it's so beautiful. Changbaishan is one of the ten most famous mountains in the world, ranking sixth. There are many tourists in Changbaishan every day, some of them are from foreign countries, some are from the south, all the tourists will buy some souvenirs to send back to their relatives and friends. The tourists who come to Changbaishan Mountain also marvel at it. After visiting Changbai Mountain, will also taste some of the local wild food, after eating, the tourists are also on the wild food, lingering, my hometown is not only the beauty of the mountains, the water is beautiful, people are more beautiful.
I am proud of the fact that I live at the foot of Changbai Mountain.
My home 14
Wide streets, both sides of the shade, green belt in the flowers fragrant, colorful, birds in the branches chirping song, grass secretly from the ground out of the head, tender, green. Vehicles flowing on the road, people coming and going on the sidewalk with a happy smile on their faces, this is where I live every day, is my lovely home.
I have a dream that my home will always be so beautiful. But how can we protect our home? Thinking about it, I came to the windowsill, a "rustle" sound attracted my attention, fixed eyes, ah, it was a grandfather is sweeping the floor, he lowered his head seriously sweeping, bean beads of sweat fell on the ground. At this time, the sound of "zzzzz..." came from the distance, it turned out to be gardening workers cutting grass, next to two aunts planting saplings, reminding me of a saying: the former plant trees, the latter multiply the cool. Listen, where did the laughter come from? I looked far away, a few brothers and sisters in the garden to feed pigeons, pigeons fluttering wings, "coo coo coo", as if to say: "Thank you, you really are my good friend." I suddenly realized that a good environment is created by everyone together.
However, there are still a lot of damage to the environment in our lives, for example, some people throw garbage, some people like to run on the grass, destroying the greenery, some people hunt animals at will, it's really hateful! I also found some phenomena of wasting natural resources, for example, do not turn off the faucet after using water, do not turn off the lights when going out, and waste food when eating, etc. In the long run, there will be a dirty and messy environment. If this goes on for a long time, there will be a mess, the air will be muddy, the water and electricity will be cut off, and we will gradually lose our beautiful home.
I want to start from the small things around me, to do with the hands of the garbage, love of green, hard planting trees, do not pour the leftovers, saving water and electricity, and stop the destruction of the environment in a timely manner. I hope that everyone can care for the environment, protect the environment, so that we can make our homes forever beautiful, I believe my dream will be realized!
My home 15Early in the morning, step in a happy pace to the grass play, allow the fragrance of the flowers and grass, listening to the birds singing, enjoy the white mist of the dazzling, and its happy; night, sitting under the bright stars, cicadas keep singing the hymns of nature, and its joy, I seem to be in a dreamlike kingdom. In spring, strolling in the river under the weeping willows, listening to the fish are talking about last night's dream, the grass is talking about last night's joy; in summer, bare feet in the soft sandy beach, watching the seagulls gently skimming over the vast sea; in autumn, standing in front of the window to see the golden leaves fall one by one; in winter, the northern earth changed into a silver-white attire ... ...
Once upon a time, the lush forest turned into a lonely pile of trees "bald", birds have no place to "settle down", clear streams into a mountain of garbage, "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools", "waste pools". "waste pool", sand dunes swallowed ten thousand hectares of good land, floods destroyed the lovely home ...... people indiscriminate cutting and logging, for their own interests continue to destroy, rebuild skyscrapers, smoke and exhaust fills the air, the blue sky is sad and dead! ...... our only home, the land is constantly being destroyed, the trees are constantly being cut down, an iron-like fact tells us: these are threatening the ecological balance, jeopardizing human health, restricting the sustainable development of the economy and society, and they will put mankind in a difficult situation. Disaster has sounded the alarm, the protection of the environment and the maintenance of ecological balance of the heavy responsibility falls on our shoulders without delay.
Come on, start from yourself, hand in hand to protect our home, the future sky must be blue, the water is clear, green trees into budding, flowers everywhere, human beings can enjoy the happiness that nature gives us.