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From the Ted Talk by Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug: Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action

Unscramble the Blue Letters


A cuolpe of years ago, I met a Norwegian philosopher, Arne Johan Vetlesen, after radeing one of his books, called "The dieanl of Nature." We quickly found that we share this common love and ftnisaacoin for ntraue, a love that we can call "ecological love." We talked about our connection to our homes and the love for our surrounding environments: for him, the forests in the southeastern parts of nowary, with the beautiful and mysterious owls; and for me, the bird ilsnad and mountain rdnue on the west coast of Norway. I said to him that in some strange way, I sometimes feel like and identify with the puffin bird, maybe because I kind of always have been dreaming about having the ability to fly. So it must be love, most likely not mutual.

Open Cloze


A ______ of years ago, I met a Norwegian philosopher, Arne Johan Vetlesen, after _______ one of his books, called "The ______ of Nature." We quickly found that we share this common love and ___________ for ______, a love that we can call "ecological love." We talked about our connection to our homes and the love for our surrounding environments: for him, the forests in the southeastern parts of ______, with the beautiful and mysterious owls; and for me, the bird ______ and mountain _____ on the west coast of Norway. I said to him that in some strange way, I sometimes feel like and identify with the puffin bird, maybe because I kind of always have been dreaming about having the ability to fly. So it must be love, most likely not mutual.

Solution


  1. island
  2. runde
  3. couple
  4. nature
  5. norway
  6. reading
  7. fascination
  8. denial

Original Text


A couple of years ago, I met a Norwegian philosopher, Arne Johan Vetlesen, after reading one of his books, called "The Denial of Nature." We quickly found that we share this common love and fascination for nature, a love that we can call "ecological love." We talked about our connection to our homes and the love for our surrounding environments: for him, the forests in the southeastern parts of Norway, with the beautiful and mysterious owls; and for me, the bird island and mountain Runde on the west coast of Norway. I said to him that in some strange way, I sometimes feel like and identify with the puffin bird, maybe because I kind of always have been dreaming about having the ability to fly. So it must be love, most likely not mutual.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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arne johan 2
bird island 2
climate change 2
complicated form 2


Important Words


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