September 10, 2009 15:14
in Australian Wilderness by john :: 
Today we received a nice little note from a previous UK guest, Miranda, who shares our thoughts on the power of the wilderness to bring benefit to people’s lives.
She enclosed a brochure on a forthcoming conference at the highly acclaimed “The Eden Project” at Cornwall. The conference is scheduled for September 25-27 if you can make it in the UK, and has been themed “Landscapes of the Mind – Does our psychological health depend on our relationship with nature?’
I remember sitting on a rock with Miranda, in the heart of the New England wilderness, overlooking a vast panorama of untracked forested ridges stretching 75 kms to the waves breaking on the Pacific beaches.
Miranda as a practicing Psycho-therapist in London, was explaining what a wonderful influence our walks in the wild were having on all our guests. To me this was an arrival at the realisation, there is more to travel than attractive resorts and orchestrated activities and invariably the greatest holiday gift of all is simplicity and just being there, absorbed by the wild, enjoying whatever nature is destined to bring to our notice.
Have you ever had that feeling?
Apparently, Seneca, a Roman philosopher of the mid 1st century AD once wrote,
“if thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor."
Would you like to add your thoughts?