Think of fish, swimming through its water neighbourhood. The water is its environment. It hatches and matures in water, and water provides everything it needs for survival. Its body has fins and a streamlined shape. It is perfectly adapted for moving through water.
Like the fish, you live in one kind of "environment," too. You are adapted to this environment from the moment you are born. It is the source of the most essential life-giving substance. You move through it without effort. In fact, it is so familiary that you probably take it for granted. What is it?
It is air. You live in a vast ocean of air. You cannot see it, but when the trees sway or the telephone lines sing, you know it is there, blowing and swirling around you. You breathe it in. You run and jump in it, and throw flying disks and fly kites through it. You watch birds and insects flapping their wings, and airplanes high overhead soaring through it.
Like the fish, you live in one kind of "environment," too. You are adapted to this environment from the moment you are born. It is the source of the most essential life-giving substance. You move through it without effort. In fact, it is so familiary that you probably take it for granted. What is it?
It is air. You live in a vast ocean of air. You cannot see it, but when the trees sway or the telephone lines sing, you know it is there, blowing and swirling around you. You breathe it in. You run and jump in it, and throw flying disks and fly kites through it. You watch birds and insects flapping their wings, and airplanes high overhead soaring through it.
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