The place of nature in human life and the role of man in the life of nature are the two main themes that Konstantin Paustovsky reflects in his book "e;The Story of the Forests."e; Naturally, the image of forests in the story is symbolic, it is a poetic image of the whole of Russia. The work surprisingly successfully intertwined the past and present, there is a constant search for overcoming the global conflict between man and nature. But at the same time, the idea of harmonic coexistence between them sounds expressively.