The Environment.
The Environment.
I can not even imagine what it must be like to have beern born in a big city.
Nor to have never been to the countryside.
The sounds sights smells and feel of nature were so important to me as a kid I cannot imagine what life would have been like without them. These are big things to children, the flora, fauna and natural landscape which void is filled I guess by the sights sounds smell and feel of the big city, by television, radio and phone/net, by music and art, litersture and history current affairs and sports, schooling and upbringing.
Many of these are also experienced in the bush but the bush itself is an instrument of learning, at least the equivalent of all of the above combined, and way more peaceful, restful and nurturing. The bush should be compulsory schooling for all city children, not just day trips, but entire weeks away.
It breathes love and accepts the love of your heart too in a way none of the rest can. Hence it is vital to growth of the human soul, responsibility, the will and our interaction with it vital to mental functioning, understanding of the relationship between all things and feeling that relationship.
Without nature man is truly his own and only world. Not always a good thing. What he is cut off from is what he was meant to be part of. It is not something extraneous to himself. It completes him and allows the development of his intuitive brain, all but shut down in an artificial world of his own making in the rise of the money power, itself an unnatural and unecessary influence so heavy it all but suffocates him, along with the rush, the indifference and the coldness it incubates.
