Writings of Porphyry Ivanov. Articles and Letters.
About Nature.
I want to say about Nature. Nature — she is our mother, she gave birth to us, put us into the world just for living. And we must be thankful to her for this. But we trust not to her. We even want not to understand that Nature has the forces that can do everything.
Nature determines everything in our life. She has air, she has water, and she has earth — these three most important bodies, that, one fine day, have given us all we need.
We, as such people, have gotten and done everything we wanted. But we have not done one thing: we have not gotten from Nature a thing of natural character — our health.
We have spent our life in a battle — in our work, in our business. I struggle not for the fact that we shall lose our bodies at the front of this strife, I struggle for the fact that we shall necessarily live as man has never tried.
I also am such a man. But I have chosen a path other people want not to walk — the people who are civilized, armed against Nature with technical knowledge. They say, “We aren’t in need of that, we’ve gotten with what we defend ourselves.”
I enforce no one, and will no one to do it, but ask of you: try to follow these ways at least a little. But trying means doing!
My business is to love Nature, appreciate and cherish her like the apple of my eye! I decided to go to Nature, walk upon the earth barefoot in order to become electrified, accumulate these forces and possess them!