Wildness. We all need a little bit of it in our lives. Being out in the wilderness, being dwarfed by surroundings formed by more powerful forces than you could ever fathom. Being conscious of how you move through the landscape, ever conscious of a very real predator (bears). It makes you feel so very alive.
As Robert Redford once said in describing his beloved Montana, "places that hold the power to feed our souls and inspire our being are few and far between".
A famous local author, Edward Abbey, wrote that "wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit". I cannot help but agree.
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