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Lithuania’s best-known naturalist on nature’s place in life and modern people’s distance from it

From Delfi · () Lithuanian

Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Interview Named sources Context piece
  • Lithuanian naturalist Selemonas Paltanavičius describes his lifelong dedication to nature and the meaning he finds in observing and listening to it.
  • He argues that modern people have lost part of their connection with nature, with some now irritated by sounds such as birdsong.
  • The article asks whether people can rebuild a relationship that they have gradually lost.

For Selemonas Paltanavičius, Lithuania’s best-known naturalist, nature is not simply a subject of work or a favorite pastime. His lifelong love of it has shaped the course of his life.

Listening to Paltanavičius, the article suggests, makes one question where people look for happiness and meaning. They may be closer than they think, if they learn to observe, listen and feel what surrounds them.

But that connection has weakened. “We no longer hear crickets,” the article says, while birdsong in the early summer morning has begun to irritate many people rather than delight them.

The conversation asks what happened to modern society and whether people can restore a relationship with nature that they have quietly lost.

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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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