○  英语演讲稿：the great society  ○

vanishing and old landmarks are violated. worst of all expansion is eroding these precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. the loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference.

　　and our society will never be great until our cities are great. today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders. new experiments are already going on. it will be the task of your generation to make the american city a place where future generations will come, not only to live, but to live the good life. and i understand that if i stayed here tonight i would see that michigan students are really doing their best to live the good life.
　　this is the place where the peace corps was started.
　　it is inspiring to see how all of you, while you are in this country, are trying so hard to live at the level of the people.
　　a second place where we begin to build the great society is in our countryside. we have always prided ourselves on being not only america the strong and america the free, but america the beautiful. today that beauty is in danger. the water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution. our parks are overcrowded, our seashores overburdened. green fields and dense forests are disappearing.
　　a few years ago we were greatly concerned about the "ugly american." today we must act to prevent an ugly america.
　　for once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. and once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.
　　a third place to build the great society is in the classrooms of america. there your children’s lives will be shaped. our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. we are still far from that goal.

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