"The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them, and quit our life of solemn trifles." With that simple, brief, yet highly meaningful passage from Emerson, he explains the basis of what we should do to have a communal experience with nature. We must connect with nature and simply understand her. The "trees", though incommunicable, tell us to be one with them and forget all of society's stresses and society itself.
I must admit that I had a hard time detaching myself from all my worries I had from school, friends, etc. There were times where I managed to forget all that and just listen to nature. I ignored the airplane sounds and viewed all that was beautiful and majestic. I was in sound with nature and it was so comforting I might as well do it again because of that warm feeling it gives you. Since I'm not a real meditator (mainly because I get distracted easily), I wasn't able to understand nature fully but I was able to connect with it and enjoy the, "... plain treasures, kindly and native to us."
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That's an interesting view of nature, I guess. I like the idea of not trying to interact but more try to understand it, although I think that's a bit of an impossibility.
I admire how you didn't really search for an answer or anything stupid but rather just decided to enjoy it. It's refreshing.
I can definitely say I get distracted easily too. At first, I kept noticing the unnatural things, the plane or car that just passed by, but those distractions slowly became less interesting as I focused on nature. I noticed the formations of the birds (and was slightly obsessive compulsive about them being crooked), the physics of the crashing waves, the way an ant crawls along my hand, and these things started to bring me back to the original purpose of the experience.
Interesting. your approach to this was a bit different from mine, but in that, it seemed more meaningful and spiritual rather than my cold realism.
Alfredo, I feel your pain about not entirely being able to connect with nature. I think its hard for any of us that live constantly surrounded by technology and the city life to fully enjoy the things that nature has to offer. Many of the things that appear in the wild are skipped over and essentially ignored because we are so used to the flashing lights and loud noises of the civilized and man-made earth. I think your experience was a sort of universal one in the way that many of us probably felt the same small connection to nature that you did. Your perspective on nature is very insightful and I enjoyed reading your post.
I understand what you're experiencing in regards to being in nature. We are all so conditioned to the world we live in. People these days cannot truly appreciate nature because we spend most of our time indoors. Our minds wander and think about society the minute we step away from it.
I really liked how you explained what nature was to you. Even if it was hard to detach yourself from everything, you managed to appreciate nature in your own way and thats all that counts. I really enjoyed reading your experiment on nature.
Ya in a society that is so rushed it is hard to really disconnect one self from so many things, like the internet, friends, music, its a difficult task to actually separate one self and listen to nature.
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