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Do you like spending time in nature?

hypercolius

Nature is sort of my go-to passtime. I love spending time in nature, by myself. 

Since I'm UK-based, this year I visited places like Abernethy Forest and the Isle of Mull to wild-camp. 

My favourite bird? The white-tailed eagle descended on Loch na Keal meters from me in July as it snatched a fish. It's eye, its bill, it's stare at me. 

My favourite plant? Glowing pink in the cathedral gloom of its dense forest, one lonely red helleborine in the Chilterns in a storm of rain. 

My favourite mushroom? Regal and satanic all at once, dressed up like Professor Woland come to real life, the Devil's bolete in the New Forest. A whole cluster of them. Beautiful and deadly. 

Who else enjoys this sort of thing? 

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  • I used to wild camp, go trekking, and sometimes climbing.

    Slowly I became less curious about nature, and now prefer to meditate in a corner of wherever I am, and otherwise read or think. When I have any energy, that is.

    Insects arent my thing, I get scared and kind of feel like we are insects as well; cluttered, noisy, and sometimes quite dangerous. Reading about them is fine though.

    I do like sea, lochs and mountains because they make my field of vision simpler (few colours) and less cluttered. Like a poem.

    I love black and white places as well, like iceland and areas of Highlands in winter.

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  • I used to wild camp, go trekking, and sometimes climbing.

    Slowly I became less curious about nature, and now prefer to meditate in a corner of wherever I am, and otherwise read or think. When I have any energy, that is.

    Insects arent my thing, I get scared and kind of feel like we are insects as well; cluttered, noisy, and sometimes quite dangerous. Reading about them is fine though.

    I do like sea, lochs and mountains because they make my field of vision simpler (few colours) and less cluttered. Like a poem.

    I love black and white places as well, like iceland and areas of Highlands in winter.

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