“To suggest that the connection was initiated as much by the place as by myself sounds magical and naïve. In poststructuralist thinking, nature is essentially a projection of human language, a social construction of a particular cultural perspective Scholarly discourse about sacred place often lacks any basis for appreciating the traditional native conviction that nature “talks back,” that it participates in the experience humans have of it” (Page 41).
I agree with this statement very much. All my life I have lived in the country, surround by nature and all it has to offer. I have always been adventurous and trying to explore things around me. I guess what makes nature so sacred to me is that im an outdoorsman, I hunt, fish, camp, I just being out in the environment that the earth offers us.
When nature “talks back,” it’s a great experience, even if it’s watching a seed you planted grow into a flower. Nature is still talking to you and letting you know how powerful it is. Since im a deer hunter, I spend a lot of time in the woods just scouting out where the next place im going to hunt is. Often I will sit on ridges just observing the terrain and the wildlife that comes through the area, it is such stress free environment. You can sit on a tree stump and just forget about reality and be apart of what nature and the earth has to offer to you. I know when im stressed with something; I will just take a walk through the woods or go fishing to relieve my mind of the realities. Nature is my playground. I enjoy being in the natural environment as much as I can.
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