2006-12-30 11:53:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No, I live in a house. The trees are safely outside.
2006-12-30 11:56:08 · answer #1 · answered by fredtubbs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Upper Michigan where the moose run loose! Yes I am close to nature, have been in the woods all day and just got home as a matter of fact
2006-12-30 21:14:01 · answer #2 · answered by Scooter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to think of nature as the "real world" as opposed to the "constructed world" that we humans spend so much of our time in. I try to spend as much time in the world of nature as is possible. It nourishes me and sustains me. It allows me to feel as if I am part of something larger than myself; larger than technology and the rest of the constructed world that too often has made the world seem small rather than grand.
2006-12-30 20:41:13 · answer #3 · answered by c'mon, cliffy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of a strange question..... I grow my own crops, live on 16 acres and enjoy the creek, the flowers, the forest, the animals, the birds and the stars in the sky. So, for me, the answer is yes!
2006-12-30 19:58:33 · answer #4 · answered by John D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure..I cannot imagine my life without it...I can't wait for the summer to come in order to be close to my garden again...
2006-12-31 03:56:22 · answer #5 · answered by Beauty isn't everything... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not as close to nature as I'd like to be. It's sad really because I want to do so much to please God.
2006-12-31 00:48:55 · answer #6 · answered by Dimples 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not as close as I would like to be these days. Some of the happiest moments of my life were standing outside watching the sunrise, at the edge of a cliff overlooking endless majestic pines & sparkling lakes, feeling the cool breeze on my cheeks & hearing the haunting call of the loon in the distance. Algonquin is one of the most beautiful places in the world. I feel at home in the woods. Then I come back home to the suburbs & head to work & feel depressed. Trapped at work at a desk with a phone & a computer, drinking a can of coke and eating a frozen dinner from a cardboard box. With only tiny little windows on the other side of the room, too small & too high to see out of. & I feel cut off from nature. & I wonder if most of the problems of today's world (the stress & crime) stem from our disconnection with nature. We get so absorbed in our modern gadgets & technology, so caught up in the rat race working at jobs we hate to earn enough money to pay for our toys that we don't spend enough time appreciating how beautiful the world is. Being one with nature is food for the soul. Take a walk in the woods & you feel serene. Renewed. At peace. It is like being close to God...
One of my resolutions is to spend more time outside. It's harder in the winter because I'm a wimp in the cold (though it has been unseasonably warm lately). I want to go hiking more.
I love photography. I take thousands of pictures. I paint as well. I mostly paint people but I should do more landscapes. I did one of Smoke Lake in Algonquin based on a photo I took at 4:30 am with an ethereal mist rising off the lake as the sun came up. Magical swirling silver fog and shades of blue, a lake surrounded by pines, like a Group of Seven painting come to life. I saw a female moose by the side of the road. I got up close for a photo. I crouched down so she wouldn't feel threatened & got some amazing pictures of her staring right at me. People said I was crazy, she might have charged at me because her baby was close behind. But I looked into her eyes. She looked into mine. I was not a threat. She wasn't scared of me nor I of her. Other people stood further back taking pictures but she & I had our moment. We were connected. Plus I'll risk my life for a good photo op!
Nature feels like home. More so than any home I've ever known. I feel the touch of God. Its beauty gives me hope. Don't succumb to the ugliness and stress and sorrow of modern life. For all its conveniences and technologies that are supposed to improve our lives, it can be cold and impersonal and destructive. If you sit in the sunlight, if you drink in the awesome beauty that is nature, you can not be unhappy, you can not be afraid, you can not be discouraged. Your heart feels uplifted. You can soar. I have wept tears of joy standing at the gates of heaven. If you live inside a dark cell, in a grey bleak manufactured world, it can destroy your soul. (Still, I love yahoo answers it makes work bearable & gives me a chance to at least talk about nature if I can't experience it at the moment!)
Yes I am close to nature, though we are separated at the moment. I will come back home to her again...
Thank you for reminding me. This was like a mini-vacation from working nightshift!
:)
2006-12-30 21:09:18 · answer #7 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone should make a point to be closer to nature if we don't then there will be no more nature..
2006-12-30 23:21:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, JUST WENT
2006-12-30 21:06:40 · answer #9 · answered by MASQUE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋