A Walk Through The Earth

Wondering through a forest can be an enjoyable past time. The number of birds one may observe, the animals as small chipmunks to deers, and maybe even a bear.

How many times have you walked in a forest or wilderness area? Can you count the number of time you have done this on one hand, or maybe you have done it so often that you have lost count.

The forest is a place for a person to loose themselves in its beauty and quietness. Hear the many bird songs, smell the fresh air and just being out there.

When you talk to people about what they have learned while walking in a forest, they may scratch their head and look a little bewildered. How do you answer the question when you have never really thought about it? The forest is a place where a person can learn about vegetation and the wildlife. Observe the types of trees and undergrowth. Look for mushrooms and other eatable fungi. Observe the number and variety of insects.

There is no better place to just sit and mediate. When a person is quiet, they are able to hear and feel things that they just never feel or hear otherwise.

This earth was created by the source of all creation just for us, His children. We have been given the lifesaving vegetation, variety of animals and insects to maintain us in good health. We have been given all that we need in order to live with out worrying about anything. This earth rotates in order to produce gravity that keeps us from floating out into space. We have been given a brain that automatically controls every function of our bodies. We have a mind that allows us to use all that we have been given for whatever we desire and continually think of new things to produce. There is no end to what we can do in our life. We only need to recognize that we have the capability to do it.

We have even developed things that can destroy all that we have in an instant. Do things that will pollute this earth to such a degree that we can literally make the earth unlivable. Poison every thing within tens to thousands of miles around us.

When we walk in a forest do we really appreciate what we have and how much it gives us? Can a walk in a forest change our whole outlook on life to the place where we can really appreciate what we have? This question has been asked so many times that it is impossible to count, but what can we do?

We can start by looking at who we are and our relationship to our environment and to other people. We can tell others of the beauty of this world. Take and show photos that we have taken of forest and mountain areas, state and provincial parks. Write books about the variety of life that is in this world from the smallest microbe to the largest thing, natural or man made on this earth. Everything that man has made has its own beauty. Something, that appeals to our sense of sight, taste, smell and touch. It’s all there for us.