Posted by A comment from Rod Dreher’s TAC blog:
When we live in the natural (much time outdoors) type of environment, our senses are constantly being stimulated. Every sound of wind, rustling animal, water, birds, our own breathing. Every sight of moving leaf, crawling insect, clouds, changes in sun or moon/stars through the day and night, feel of wind or precipitation. Things like this – and think how different it is to be shut sealed inside a modern room/house, away from everything living and moving of the earth. It is no wonder at all to me that we have needed to invent every little type of artificial connection and entertainment, and that we can feel strange to just sit in a quiet room and stare in a book.
This resonates with me a lot. My most peaceful moments often occur when outside listening to the sounds of nature. Cosmic background noise, so to speak. It’s the reason I like taking Oreo down to the river by lower Lawrenceville or to the Point. He’s a very peaceful pup as well so often, he’ll just stand there with his nose up, sniffing the world as it rushes by him.
One of my favorite places in Bangladesh is like that – alive with peaceful noise, so to speak. Sitakunda in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
