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Is it important for people to spend time in nature, outside the civilized world?

I had an almost cathartic experience while hiking in the hills in Mallorca-- I was wondering if anyone else felt that they sometimes NEEDED to spend time out in the wild, and were spiritually affected by doing so.

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Being in nature is a way of getting in touch with your true self. We are constantly surrounded with other distractions, but the great thinkers of this world found time alone in natures quiet was benificial and nurturing to their lives.I see people all day atteched to their cell phones or I-Pods and I wonder if they are afraid to be in a quiet place alone with their thoughts.

I belive that it is. I was in Las Vegas, with my family, for a week and for the first four days me and my brother-in-law spent most of our time in casinos and on the strip. A place dedicated to every pleasure that you could want. On day five everyone went to Hoover Dam. After the tour we took a different way back to Vegas down an empty desert road and the stillness of it filled me with joy for the entire way back. I was not the only who felt this joy. You could see it in people's faces and the way that they acted.

for sure! there is nothing better than spending a day outside in the fresh air, sun upon your body, feeling the wind. for me being outside with nature is a natural high, it is good for our body and minds.

Yes! There is no experience like being at natures will. We are so protected by our cozy living rooms and big TVs, and to be literally in the middle of the untamed wilderness, (whether it is the peruvian jungle or out in the middle of the ocean), is an experience unlike any other. Nature is unpredictable, and it takes courage and inner strength to put yourself in some of these situations. There is a sense of losing "security", and then one is forced to literally take care of themselves. But the reward of not only the beauty of our natural planet, but the sense that the world is so much greater and powerful than ourselves is something else. I do think it is a "spiritual" experience and a very important one too.

Yes there is no doubt about it. Nature can be the greatest teacher on the world. All things are created naturally and people have lost touch with the bigger natural world, and that is unnatural. Nature bring us to the present. We spend so much time thinking about the future or dwelling on the past, and in nature all there is is the NOW. Its beautiful and harmonious simple in its very essence. YES go back to nature!!!

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Definitely. While the 'civilized' world has its charms, it is too full of the illusion and delusions of Mankind (things like the notion we can control everything and then consume our way to happiness). The built-up civilizations we have made are but a temporary facade we have slapped onto the face of something far more enduring, hoping to believe that we are lords of all we survey. Yet without constant care and maintenance what we have so proudly built up would be replaced in just a few generations by that which we actively seek to eradicate. Whether one chooses to believe in God or not believe in God, Nature is tonic for our souls. It reminds us of our place within the grand scheme of things -- reminds us that we too are just passengers on this ride and no matter how much we might like to think we're in control or how much we might like to try to re-create our surroundings in our own temporary image, we're not the ones in control!

ABSOLUTELY!!!!

i know what you mean. I remember this field that I just feel happy in. The things I felt there were feeling I could never feel anywhere else. Everything was just perfect there. I totally feel that staying cooped up in a city your whole life is no way to live. There is something to be felt in nature and there is no way to reproduce it, no matter how many plants you have in your apartment.

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