Forest is a multifaceted concept. It can be examined from a natural-historical perspective (as a natural phenomenon), as well as in technical, economic, legal, historical, and medical aspects.

Jailoo. The wild beauty of bountiful nature and the free nomadic life are the desired reward after the harsh trials of long winter days and the severe fodder shortage of early spring. A mild summer on high-mountain pastures makes the nomad's hard labor feel like a celebration.

A person's attitude toward nature, animals, and plants is determined not only by their natural surroundings but also by the features of their economic way of life; among the Kyrgyz, as is well known, nomadic livestock herding was combined with hunting.

Representatives of the Environmental Movement 'BIOM,' the Global Forest Coalition, and national environmental organizations took part in the National Presentation of the draft resolution of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, 'Nature Knows No Borders.'

Humanity currently faces a number of global challenges. By global challenges, we mean the abrupt changes in the social, informational, and natural environment of human habitation that have occurred over the past 100 years in almost the entire world.

The decline of biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan over a long period of time has been caused by a number of factors, particularly the disruption of the habitat conditions of natural communities or their direct destruction.

Our own State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry does not have enough salaried positions for nature protection, even for those species of animals and plants included in the Red Book of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The tree is a symbol of Life. It gave rise to humankind. Humans are the fruit of the Tree of Life. But a fruit that is unable to reproduce Life, yet is able to worsen and even destroy it.

These notes are based on conversations with students about the collection 'Psychology, Linguistics, and Interdisciplinary Connections' (eds. T.V. Akhutina and D.A. Leontiev), published in Moscow (Smysl Publishing) in 2008 and devoted to the many-faceted scholarly work of A.A. Leontiev. There were several such conversations, and material published by R. Frager and J. Fadiman in the encyclopedic volume 'Personality' (Moscow, Olma-Press, 2002) is also used here. In essence, the issues discussed here are of known interest to students and teachers, participants in a seminar on the problems of communication. I would like to note that the free form in which the material is presented should not trouble a reader interested in the mutual influence of understanding and communication.

The existence of the world is continuous, and this is quite obvious. But as for its essence, matters are not so simple. It is no coincidence that systems which ascribe a single substrate to everything that exists — be it matter, idea, or energy — lack sufficient explanatory power and have not become universally accepted. There is nothing impossible in the idea that the essence of the world is discrete, and it would be more correct to speak of essences that form the basis of the world's existence. This would fully correspond to the philosophical premises required by Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.