Time in Nature

I was wondering. What ways do spend your time in nature spiritually?
I look at the fossils in rocks.

 

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sit, breath, listen..... run, play, laugh, swim.... stand, stare, feel, water.... taste, poop, sleep

 

depends where i am at in nature,,,but, i love watching and listening to the water and trees and i enjoy zoning out on auras of things

 

sitting on the rocks right next to the ocean <3 beautiful.

 

im going to kioloa bay for a week tomorrow, real nice place. im planning to meditate on how beautiful the place is, i guess that includes touching, smelling etc.

 

it did include all of those things, it was a really nice place

 

we are always surrounded by nature, or the artifacts we are surrounded by are.
we simply allow ourselves to get destracted by them from realizing this.

and nature is diversity and it shows up sometimes where we least expect it
where sometimes it can seem inconvenient or even harmful to be.

nature isn't always soft and cuddly
it isn't an abstraction either
and it doesn't just exist out there someplace where you go on vacation
sometimes it crawls up your back under your shirt
sometimes it has claws and teeth
sometimes it even tastes good.

the main thing about it we tend to forget,
because of what we surround ourselves by
most of us, most of the time,
is that we are also a part of it

and will always be

if we leave this world physicaly, we must take some part of it with us
just to survive, unless and untill we get to some other world that has nature too,
and can we even then expect to be able to live in that nature there?

there may be some worlds arround some stars that we can
but they will almost certainly prove to be far fewer then even worlds
there are other kinds of people living on, and like we do, surrounding
themselves with their artifacts

=^^=
.../\...

 

depends where i am in nature. i enjoy sitting in a forest, or on a beach, just smoking pot and thinking. it's one of my favourite ways to pass time.

 

nature is were its at man .

 

so very very true

 

mmmmhm.

 

sitting and listening to everything and meditating early in the morning when the sun is just barely up is my favourite thing to do in nature. but i also swim and play around it all.

 

setting in the bamboo groves listening to the leaves rustle in the breeze.

 

I like to observe and listen. Today I just stood at the edge of a field after I'd been running and just stood and listened and watched all the butterflies and birds and felt the wind against me.

 

I am very blessed to live on a nice piece of land with a small creek and lots of woods, and a huge mowed lawn, and then an even bigger un-mowed field/pature. My field lays at the mouth of my woods. In the field there are many flowering plants that the butterflies love...among them a huge stand of milkweed that those little orange beetles and the monarchs need to survive, and there are wild aster and yarrow, and blackberries and gosh, so much I can't even name them all w/o boring you all to tears. And I have a garden where I grow lotsa different veggies. My fave thing to do is to walk out early in the morning (my early being,like, 8 am) when the dew is still on the grass, and nosing thru the veggies...one day, I saw a brown male mantis, another day I saw a huge stag bettle (they are good luck!) and another day I saw a little orange spring peeper in the little puddle that collected at the base of a large cabbage leaf. I found little pools in the hollows of trees out in the forest, and a large owl has made a nest about forty feet up in a hollowed out tree. (the tree is still living!) there are also red tailed hawks and turkeys, and deer, and crayfish and minnows and toads and frogs...etc...and I have the great (I'm tearing up now) and divine oppurtunity to just sit/stand/kneel wherever it is that I may be, on my land that I own(kinda), and drink all this bounty in. I feel truly blessed, to have this nice place for my kids to play and that me and my hub have the land we always wanted, and I have room to keep domestic animals (I've got me some chickens and some rabbits...working on gettin some milk goats and maybe a horse just cuz I want one. It really doesn't fit in my to-live-on category..but it could still be useful I guess...)and that we are young and the world is full of life! I think that I worship the life-force more than anything...my god, it takes sooo many forms and each one is different, on kindom, phyllum, class order family genus species indivudual level! And god looked down and saw that it was gooooood ....even tho I'm not really a christian X)

 

lift your spirit in nature

 

When I'm in the forest a sunny day I close my eyes and take a deep breath. When I open my eyes I feel grateful for the beauty I see.