Padrinho

SEBASTIÃO MOTA
THE CABOCLO ECOLOGIST

Padrinho Sebastião is remembered by us as a man devoted to God. Naturally his feelings were always the noblest. Among these feelings, a great love for nature. Even without ever attending school or an ecological lecture, he knew about things through a simple act of love that was inherent in him. I recollect wistfully the old times of settlement of the community, the origins of Céu do Mapiá. Padrinho accompanied the opening of squirt roads across the forest step by step, always demanding from the youths respect and affection for the virgin forest. On a certain occasion, a rubber tapper found a herd of pigs and killed more than one animal, out of vanity, for he was far and would not be able to carry them both. When Padrinho got to know about the wickedness, he severely reprehended the offender. By living harmoniously we can make use of what the forest offers for our survival. It is possible to knock down a tree and preserve all the ecosystem. This must be our reality: to know how to live together with the wealth that God offers to us. Never to be a greedy, harmful person, a destroyer. "Well-ventured are the humble of spirit because theirs is the Kingdom of the Heaven. Well-ventured are the gentle because they will inherit the Earth". So Jesus said. I trust this brotherhood and I see that a lot people deserve this title. They are the ones who live in great universal harmony, not pursuing neither injuring their similar, not polluting neither mistreating the nature.

by Lucio Mortimer

EM PORTUGUÊS (IN PORTUGUESE)














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