“Perhaps being amidst the
undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant that I too could be undesecrated,
regardless of what I'd lost or what had been taken from me, regardless of the
regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that
had been done to me. Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel
skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.” ―
Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
At levels we are
not aware of, Mother Nature has her way with us. Quieted by her forests and
purified clean from her airy deserts, she touches us in places where words fall
short. Small and limited they cannot name or describe the spiritual experience
of communion with Nature. At her oceans, rivers, lakes and streams we are
altered. After all, we are 70% water. We literally melt and merge. She changes
our body chemistry.
