"...You know, here I often look at the sky, because here in the city it’s the only thing that links me to nature. Another thing is that a person who is deprived of nature is also deprived of literature, and of the ability to understand it. Such a person can’t be a patriot, because all of Russian literature is linked to nature. I rarely read purely urban novels — they don’t interest me, and there are very few of them.... All Russian art, painting, literature and music are linked with nature, and Soviet too, if it hasn’t deviated too far from the Russian..."
Ian Iodis, in past - president of the Bittsa environmental association
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