Rosa Murray / nature starvation

Arriving in Glen Prosen I was looking forward to being in the outdoors  for a sustained period of time and to the liberation of having no email or mobile phone contact,in Knoydart I found that quite challenging and unsettling but not this time. Since Knoydart I have experienced an internal shift which has been quite transformational in many ways perhaps not obvious to others but certainly to me. I think I have a far better understanding of the connectedness of self and the earth and of the  sacred relationship between the two.I know,in a new way,that living and being in the outdoors can transform and heal the self  and understand why so often, when living in the city, I have sought the hills or the coast to find an oasis for peace  and reflection. Patrick Geddes,a Scottish writer,town planner and environmentalist 1854-1932, despaired of the ‘nature starvation’ within the industrial planning of our cities and I think I know what he means, perhaps more intuitively than before I engaged with Natural Change.