Being upon nature...

i also love to climb into trees and exprole natur to its fullest im always looking for an adventure or that "next peek to reach"

 

I love being in nature- I wish I could be there 24/7. I always feel so much more peaceful when i'm among the grass, trees and water.

My partner refuses to wear gloves when she gardens because she feels she connects to the Earth better when she's bare handed.

 

If I'm interpreting this correctly...

I think there's a fundamental difference between "forgetting one's problems" and going out into nature to sooth oneself. Forgetting about your problems isn't necessarily a bad thing, if done in the restorative sense (ie, taking refuge in the woods from being beaten senseless by the stupidity of our modern world, to recover one's spirits and passion for life and be able to better function when confronting the harsh realities of our world).

Besides, walking out into nature is still far more real and healthier than (for example) escapism via video games or a heroin addiction. In all honesty I think nature is really all we should live for; I see most human civilization as rather pointless and self-defeating. And that pretty much answers what I think about nature in general (for this topic); I honestly wish there were no big cities (like Baltimore, an ugly shitty city where I'm currently stuck at, heheh) in the world, and that everything was pure wilderness. That'd be fuckin' awesome... *sigh*

 

Mmm yes, nicely said. Some people go into nature to remember their centre, to feel their core (nature is such a beautiful reflection of ourselves). When we are centered in love, we can see our problems differently, such as simply occurrences and sequences of events that aren't problems at all. Being centered allows us to let go of judgements and other complicating factors that are delusions and we can act from our hearts and our attention.

 

Thankyou for actually thinking. That post was not treated very constructively

I was mostly trying to express how hard it is for a complicated person like me to go out into nature (sometimes) and not feel a little anxious because of all the silence. Thats where your thoughts unwind and become nightmarish, but if I spend enough time trying to sort them out, I become at peace again.

 

wow I love how you just don't get defensive, LIAField. You just direct whatever way the thread is going to help people further understand where you are. I... find that so cool.

 

When I'm outside observing the kosmos that surrounds us, my problems are washed away, because I am reminded how irrelevant they are.

 

Peace, oneness , happy like this is what i need to be doing every day but how am i going to find a mate if i am alway in a tree ? i can't so im out and about looking and then i will go in to the woods and rase my family

Peace
Barefoot

 

he he, you flatter me. But really I still have bad anger problems. I should take the title for hipforums flamer No. 1. Maybe your comments mean i'm heading in the right direction.

 

Oh really? I can't keep track of most flamings and who did them anymore (lol). Whatever, I appreciate what you did here.

 

I find going to place like hills and forests really gives an insight into our own origins.. Everywhere you look, there's something that's alive, something like ourselves, just thinking about that makes me wonder why we've become so disconnected from it. I've come to love it much more over the past couple of years, being near nature is one of the only places I can go where I don't feel I need to obsess over our the problems brought about by the fictional, concrete world we've created.

It's such a shame that as time goes by it's going to be harder and harder to find places like that.

 

I love being outdoors, doing anything. Gardening's the best tho, so great to work the soil...

 

I have a deep adoration for the sun. Everytime I sit under the sun, I feel overwhelmingly inspired.

 

I watch movies that are based in the old days, when we were one with nature and wish I was alive back then. When people lived on farms and relied on nature to provide.

Now I feel trapped in this suburban nightmare we call civilization.

I love just being in a forest, or a field, or by a lake. But could I survive out in the wilderness, alone? Fuck no. All natural survival instincts seem to be gone from us.

 

They aren't instincts, they are learned behaviors. That should give you, and all of us hope: they can be learned again.

 

Agreed And we have to shake off our apathy and do so...don't give up..slowly and surely cast off your dependencies to society with every year. This might be something as simple as riding a bike instead of a car, or learning to cook, or live cheaply, or make your own clothes, or fish or weening yourself of the TV and reading, if you haven't done so already...then work your way from there

 

it's very depressing to know that more and more of nature is being replaced by sub divisions, factories, and parking lots though. it REALLY gives me a very depressed feeling. any time i just sit in the middle of the woods and stare at the trees above me i feel at peace.

 

I love being on the beach in the middle of winter

 

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To me, nature is what makes the most sense. I feel... at home, when I'm surrounded by trees, other plants, animals and rocks, doing what comes naturally to them.

I can't imagine spending too much time away from it. I don't like frogetting that sense of... of innocence and purpose.

Nature: I love the stuff!