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Small creek in forest along Snowgrass Trail, Goat Rocks Wilderness, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington State, USA
Gordon Hempton has made a career-sized quest for natural spots free from human noises. A generation ago about 15 locations in the continental USA fit his strict definition (15 minutes uninterrupted by people's sounds). More recently the number has dropped to just a few. At his website, www.soundtracker.com there is a link to the "square inch of silence" challenge.
This video clip is only a few seconds long, but is representative of this are near the south boundary of the Manistee National Forest about a mile from the North Country Trail start near the Croton Dam on the Muskegon River in west Michigan's Newaygo County. Only a moment of quiet passes before a car or truck passes on the paved (Croton) road further north. Other times during the day hike gunshots, jets, prop planes, helicopters, deafening motorcycles, and the shouts of possibly inebriated river float recreators interrupted the sounds of the woods: a dozen different bird voices, wind passing through evergreen needles and summer foliage, buzzing of winged insects, and the ambient hum of so much that is green and growing.
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Elbow River Valley. Tsuu T'ina Nation's territory lays in the upper half of the picture.
Griffith Woods Park is below the line cut in the forest. My 'playground', the place where I practice 'shinrin yoku' :)
Forest Bathing - immersing oneself in a forest environment in order to experience the healing effects of Mother Nature at her best.
“There’s magic in the air,” is one way you could describe the believed benefits of forest bathing, since it is believed that the trees themselves emit natural aromatherapeutic benefits from the essential oils in the woods that are inhaled over an extended period.
This image is from a Meridian Raw CIC facilitated photography trip to Ashclyst Forest at Killerton Estate, as part of the Chasing the Light Photography Project in Exeter, Devon, UK on Thursday 24th March, 2022.
This image is from a Meridian Raw CIC facilitated photography trip to Ashclyst Forest at Killerton Estate, as part of the Chasing the Light Photography Project in Exeter, Devon, UK on Thursday 24th March, 2022.
This image is from a Meridian Raw CIC facilitated photography trip to Ashclyst Forest at Killerton Estate, as part of the Chasing the Light Photography Project in Exeter, Devon, UK on Thursday 24th March, 2022.
Japanese Maple, Acer palmatum, brilliant with autumn color in the Seattle Japanese Garden, Seattle, Washington State, USA