Why do you go out into the woods?

**cyc79** · 01-14-2008, 03:03 PM

I've loved the bush all my life.Freedom,peace & quiet.It's where I'm happiest & where I feel the most alive.Went so far as to build a cabin & spend as much time there as possible.Would stay there forever if $$$ would allow.

**trax** · 01-14-2008, 03:17 PM

Cuz today's the day the teddy bears are having their picnic...what no one else remembers the song?

Seriously though, it's been said here already, it's where I belong (and if I want to have tea with Frank, it's where I have to go to find him, I'll just follow the path of carcasses

).

**nell67** · 01-14-2008, 04:55 PM

Because I feel more comfortable there than anywhere else I go

**Sourdough** · 01-14-2008, 05:22 PM

The wilderness accepts me without judgement. It does not care that I am fat, ugly, lazy, balding, old, half a' boubble off.....The wilderness is the place to get out of my mind; I do not judge the wilderness as I wander through it; I do not see a tree as defective, because it is bent, twisted or some limbs are broke. It is that, and it is perfect; It is what it is. The whole is perfect, and the parts are perfect.

I feel like a child at Disneyland, there is so much to see, that the eyes race from wonder to wonder. Drawn now here, and now wandering toward, what is that over there.

I am the mirror that the wilderness is reflected on; And the wilderness is the mirror that I am reflected on. And so we are "ONE".

There is only what is, and what is, is the pure bliss of being "ALIVE".........

**nell67** · 01-14-2008, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by hopeak

The wilderness accepts me without judgement. It does not care that I am fat, ugly, lazy, balding, old, half a' boubble off.....The wilderness is the place to get out of my mind; I do not judge the wilderness as I wander through it; I do not see a tree as defective, because it is bent, twisted or some limbs are broke. It is that, and it is perfect; It is what it is. The whole is perfect, and the parts are perfect.

I feel like a child at Disneyland, there is so much to see, that the eyes race from wonder to wonder. Drawn now here, and now wandering toward, what is that over there.

I am the mirror that the wilderness is reflected on; And the wilderness is the mirror that I am reflected on. And so we are "ONE".

There is only what is, and what is, is the pure bliss of being "ALIVE".........

Even better hopeak,the wilderness does not judge us because we are not perfect.It accepts us in the way we are,it does not care about our past.

**Sourdough** · 01-14-2008, 06:12 PM

rather thought that is what it say, But perhaps not.

**nell67** · 01-14-2008, 06:13 PM

yep its what you said,sorry,my ADHD got the better of me there for a minute

**Chuck** · 01-14-2008, 08:55 PM

I live there if you could blow up my avatar you would see my home. Almost 70 miles from the nearest road.

**Two Rivers** · 01-15-2008, 10:22 PM

Because it's where life is as it should be. Peaceful, at its own pace.

**toasta** · 01-16-2008, 12:43 AM

i go to chill and listen to the river and every now and again to hike

**LadyTrapper** · 01-16-2008, 08:30 PM

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John of the Mountains:The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

And like so many have posted ahead of me......it's the feeling of going home. The smell of the woods after a light rain, if bottled, would be priceless..

**FVR** · 01-16-2008, 10:55 PM

I was out in the woods today, chasing bunnies with a slingshot. Think I met up with Bugs, killing a rabbit with a slingshot, yeh right, LOL.

And I'm a good shot with the slingshot.