Anton Chekhov - Environmentalist advanced A tribute to my name ...
Retrieved from Uncle Vanya (1896) - A. Chekhov
(Einaudi traduza -1971. Ripellino Angelo Maria)
First Act (pgg 27-29)
Astrov - I have a small estate, in all thirty desjatìne, but if the interest is a model and a nursery garden, which does not equal x one thousand versts round. Next to me is the state forest ... The forester is old and always sick, so I have to take care of everything.
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Elèna Andreevna - She is still young .. (Omitted) Always forests and forests. It must be monotonous.
Sonja - No, it is extraordinarily interesting. Michaìil Lvovich plant new forests each year and has already won a bronze medal and a diploma. It shall work for those old are not exterminated. If the listener will agree with him. He says that forests grace the earth, teach a man to understand the beautiful and inspiring a majestic mood. Forests soften the harsh climate. In districts where the climate is mild, you save energy in the struggle with nature and therefore the man who lives there is sweeter and more tender. The men of those parts are beautiful, supple, easily emotional, their language is exquisite, graceful movements. Among them bloom sciences and arts, their philosophy is not dismal and behave towards women with high sophistication ...
Vojnìzkij (Vaja) - laughing - Brava, brava! ... Everything is nice, but not persuasive, for which (for Astrov) let me, my friend, to continue to light the stove with wood and wood to build remittances.
Astrov - You can light the stove with peat and remittances to build with stone. Okay, I admit, felling forests, if you must, but because exterminate them? The Russian forests creak under the ax, perish billion trees are destroyed the shelters of the animals and birds, the whitewash and the rivers dry up, disappear without a remedy for beautiful scenery, and all because the man lacks the sense to get fuel from the earth. (Elena Andreevna) is not true lady? You have to be barbarians reckless, for firewood in the stove this beauty, to destroy what we can not forge. Man is endowed with intelligence and creative power to multiply what is given, but so far he has not created but destroyed. The forests are becoming scarcer, the rivers dry up, the game became extinct, the climate is ruined, and every day the earth becomes poorer and uglier. (A Vojnìzkij) You look at me with irony, and everything that I say you seem futile, and in fact ... and perhaps a bislaccheria. But when I close to the forests that I have saved farmers from cutting or fraudulent when I hear rustling my young forest planted by my hands, I realize that the climate is a little in my power and that if a thousand years he will be happy, I'll blame myself a little. When a betullina crying and then I see greening and rocking in the wind, my heart fills with pride, and I
... But, I must go. All this is probably a bislaccheria in the end. I have the honor to greet you!
Third Act (pgg 50-51)
Elèna Andreevna - Yesterday he promised to show me his work ... It 's free?
Astrov - Oh, certainly (relaxes on the table to play the cartograms or fixed with pins) But if it is in St. Petersburg and studied piano, this does not affect the ....
Elèna Andreevna - Why, it's true I do not know the campaign, but I read a lot.
Astrov - In this house ... In my table I have a room of Ivan Petrovic. When I'm tired until full degradation, I leave everything and run here, and I toy with this stuff an hour or two ... (omitted) Now look here, is the picture of our district, as it was fifty years ago. The dark green forests and Verdechiaro mean: half of the entire surface is covered by forests. Where the Green sits a red lattice, once roamed elk, goats ... I point to all the flora and fauna. Lived on this lake swans, geese, ducks and as they say old, Ogna reason of birds, a visible dense: they flew in clouds. You see, in addition to the towns and villages are scattered around homesteads, farms, monasteries of schismatics, water mills ... There were many cattle and horses. You can see it from light. In this area, for example, is coated with a thicker blue: there were whole herd about every farm, three horses.
We now look lower. What was twenty-five years ago. Here now is covered by forests only a third of the entire surface. There are goats, but they are elk. The green and blue are paler. And so on and so forth. Moving on to the third part: part of this district. Green persists at some point, but it is much more compact, rather patchy. They also disappeared elk, and the swans, the hermitages, the first of the mills there is no trace. In a complex framework of progressive decay and undeniable, which, of course, that there are ten or fifteen to become total. She says that at stake here are the influences of culture, which the old life, of course had to give way to new. Yes, I understand: if instead of these forests devastated pass roads, railways, if there were workshops, factories, schools, the people would be healthier, richer, smarter, but there is no such thing! The district always has the same swamps, the same mosquito, the same impassable roads, poverty, diphtheria, fire ... We are facing a decline due to a too heavy struggle for existence. This decline stems from inertia, ignorance, complete lack of conapevolezza; because raggricciato cold, hungry, sick, man, to save some vestige of life, to keep its children, instinctively, unconsciously clings to everything it can satisfy the hunger, heat, destroys everything, but in return you have not created anything yet. (Coldly) From his face I understand that this does not interest.
Elèna Andreevna - We understand so little ..
Astrov - There is nothing to understand, just not interested.
