What the Outdoors Does for Me
Today I want to share with you about why I’m so passionate about the outdoors,...
So here’s why I love being outside, and especially, outside where I’m surrounded by remote, wild, natural environments.1. I want to be free from over-stimulation.
Technology, traffic, shopping, todo lists, managing money, making money, responding to other people’s urgency — it’s all overwhelming.
Being free from that for a few hours, a few days, or a few weeks is good for me.
It helps me stay healthy, and it helps my mind and emotions heal from the damage they incur from living in a busy, hectic, first-world urban environment.
2. I want to experience the earth in its purest, unadulterated form - before it’s too late.
Energy development, residential and commercial development, urban development, consumerism - our society’s thirst for these things is destroying natural places at an alarming rate.
Given the recent political climate surrounding the Keystone Pipeline, Bears Ears National Monument, and development in the Grand Canyon, it’s apparent to me that nothing seems sacred or untouchable anymore. I hope future generations have the opportunities we do to experience wild nature.
From Ryan Jordan BPL Founder
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in"
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
By John Muir
That about sums it up for me too.