The brook sound like murmuring merrily,
but somehow I feel sad with the water streaming down the beautiful valley..
The sight of the clear weater of the beautiful valley somehow makes me sad and tantalizing
in spite of my being delighted at its beauty.
Why? Too pessimistic? The extreme beauty brings rather sadness?
No. The end of the water makes me sad.
I don't like to imagine its destiny.
As the ancient Greek philosopher Thales (640-546 B.C.) said, ``The water is the source of
everything,'' it is getting more and more important in line parallel with the development of
civilization and industrialization, which has brought great problems to the water.
Some experts say, ``The 21st century would become an era of the water crisis.
'' Maybe, the old saying ``one spends money as if it were water'' would become untrue soon, whereas the ancient Chinese maxim,
``The politics is nothing but to govern water and hill,'' would come back soon.
Prof. Kwon Sook-pyo, head of the Environmental Research Institute of Yonsei University, Seoul, says,
``We are proud of our beautiful country, called `Kumsu Kangsan' (lit. [beautiful] rivers and mountains which is like silk embroidaries) from the ancient time.
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