Once upon a time a boy was
walking through a little forest when he found a big blackboard hanging on an
old tree trunk. It came complete with a box of chalk pieces, and bright sparks
were flying from the tips of every piece of chalk. The boy took a piece of
chalk and started to draw on the board: first a tree, then a rabbit, then a
flower...
Magically, whenever he finished a
figure it came to life and jumped out of the board. Before long, the place had
become a wonderfully green and fertile forest, full of animals happily playing.
Excited, the boy also drew his
parents and brothers and sisters enjoying a picnic, with their sandwiches and
cold meats. He also drew the paper plates and the empty tins of sardines left
on the ground, which always happened on their picnics. But when these bits of
litter came to life something awful happened: around every paper plate and
every empty tin, the forest turned grey, and this greyness started quickly spreading
everywhere: to the grass, to the flowers, to the animals... The boy realised
the litter was to blame for all the greyness, so he ran through the forest with
the blackboard rubber in his hand to rub them out wherever they had landed.
He was lucky. He was quick, and
didn't leave a single piece of litter. The forest and its animals managed to
recover, and they played together for the rest of the day.
The boy never again saw that
blackboard, but now, every time he goes to the countryside with his family, he
remembers that adventure and is the first to pick up any litter. And he is sure
to remind the others that anything left lying in the woods can do more damage
to the animals than they ever would have suspected.
Some things you can’t leave in
the countryside because they do harm to the environment and living things.
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