Experience the Outdoors

One of the first questions I had to ask myself is who really cares about traveling and experiencing the outdoors?  Life as many of us know it doesn’t include time to travel, we can barely pay the bills as it is.  So, why should I make the effort?  How will my family benefit from this “adventure”?  Well, if you care about your overall health and well-being, this might apply to you.  If you care about what your kids grow up learning, this might apply to you.  Just some thoughts!

Some very smart and influential leaders have spoken on the subject:

Experience Amazing Things

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”… John Muir

“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”… Charles A. Lindbergh

Learn By Doing

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life; living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to know it by experience.”… Henry David Thoreau

The Wisdom of Nature

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”… John Muir

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”… Juvenal, Satires

Find Balance in Life

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.”… John Muir

Nature’s Therapy

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.”… Anne Frank

Spiritual Connection

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”… Mother Teresa

Embrace the Adventure

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”… Mark Twain