Your relationship with local landscapes

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How much time do you spend out in nature? This includes urban and suburban natural settings – like parks, or in a courtyard, or in a back garden. When you’re out in nature, how much time do you take to notice and experience the animals, plants or land masses around you?

Do you get out into nature as much as you’d like? Can you think of anything that holds you back from getting out (like… transportation, or work, or other problems that you might think of)?

If you like, I have a suggestion for those of you interested in shamanism, or just nature in general. Take the time to spend 20 minutes out in nature this week. It might be under a tree in the sun, or it might be in your own garden, or it might be in a park or in an area of forest or bushland or desert. You can take longer if you like, or you can go more than once. As well as responding to the questions in the prompt, take the time to write about your experience, how did you feel? Did you feel uncomfortable, peaceful, agitated, or connected? Did anything catch your eye?

Alternatively, for those who do spend a lot of time in nature already, how does it make you feel? Do you find that gardens or parks have a different feeling to forests, or deserts? Or that a local piece of land might have a more intimate or different feel to something far away?