In Tom Brown Jr.’s Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking there lies great lessons in perspective of your surroundings. Tom teaches the reader about how they can become part of the landscape rather than an intruder. To illustrate this he tells a story about entering into the wilderness and sitting in one spot for hours. During this time he observed an immense amount of life coming and going around him, sometimes even walking over him. All of sudden the entire area exploded in frantic movement and all of the animal life disappeared. A few minutes later a couple of hikers passed through with huge packs carrying on a conversation.
As a person who really enjoys the wilderness as a hiker, I found this quite shocking. I had never considered before this time that there was anything that I might be missing. This story really opened my eyes to the potential that lies in the wilderness and become more in synch with it.
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