Mike Cohen from Friday Harbor WA writes:
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'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
I like to watch the force of the storm, it shows me an intense beauty. The storm tells me that even though nature is gentle and soft, it can also be destructive and dark.

'Alohi from Honolulu, Hawaii writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings by watching the waves roll in with the moving of the tide. Allowing Mother Nature to cleanse my soul with her softening whispers in the wind, delicate uplifting with her sounds, and rejuvenating escapes into her waters. Nature to me is a never-ending circle of life that surrounds us and draws us into her bosom to be comforted when we weep with despair. When I feel the wind fly through my being, standing on top of the volcano or valley, I know that I am one, we are one and the universe comes complete with my acceptance. How do you measure the significance of Nature? I ask this question myself everyday.

Bob Hobson from Idaho writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when spending the night alone at a high-mountain lake. It is then that I most easily shed the false boundry between myself and the surrounding world. And it is then that I recognize at last that we are all one. It is then too that life takes on a new dimention: half of my body uniting with the warm earth, the other half facing the night sky. I suddenly feel as if I am transformed into starlight reflected in water.

Sea Ganschow from Bellingham, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by organizing workshops where myself and others rediscover the love and support all around us in the natural world.

Tom Slomke from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I stop to breathe in the nature that is around me. I clear my mind from other thoughts, and I concentrate on the environment that I am in. I hear new sounds, I smell new smells. I feel gentle breezes. I detect humidity. Animals come out from hiding and show me their presence. I walk away knowing that there is a much larger world to learn from within the short distance that my body can sense.

Johanna Jones from New Mexico writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by being outside in a variety of climates and weather; from touching trees and grass; by relaxing with my eyes closed while outdoors; when I sense a tree nearby with my eyes closed; when I focus my connecting senses onto natural objects. I am happy when I allow my thoughts and feelings to communicate to me how I feel when I am outside in a natural setting. And I am in a natural setting when I can feel the sun and air on my skin...I love this stuff and want to do more and more.

emmon from California writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by letting my Earth connected good feelings continually motivate me to help Earth and its people by contributing to the preservation of open, untouched wilderness areas in my home county. I contribute both through funds and through volunteer work.

Anonymous' from California writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by walking and sitting among trees. I crawled through some heavy brush and secured myself in the low, open area under a large California Bay Laurel. I felt attracted to a twig far up in the sunlight. Focusing on this twig I became aware of the air joinning us, as something in me told me to breathe more slowly and deeply, which brought on a feeling of calm and of the grandeur and perfection of nature, a feeling which lasted well after I had returned home.

Claudia from http://www.infolynk.com/psychicweb writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I am out at sea with my friends the dolphins and whales. I take people out to experience the dolphins' joy and freedom and I'm always amazed at what happens during these encounters. We learn to release and let go of all that we've held onto for so long - those negative layers that we don't need anymore. The dolphins seem to facilitate this healing and we willingly agree to let them lead the way, if even for a little while. It is an opportunity to begin again. It's understanding that we can bring the essence of the dolphins back into our everyday lives, wherever we may happen to live in this world of ours. Whether it's in the grandeur and beauty of the Rocky Mountains or whether it's amid skyscrapers in New York City. The choice is ours... My nature experience teaches me to take responsibility for those around me, to see within myself and then to go without and make a difference. I would love to hear from others about their experiences... Dolphin dreams, Claudia

Dana from Wisconsin writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
simply by soaking in all the beauty that there is. I can only see out of one eye and the possibility that some day I will be blind is out there. I love to hike or just sit back and admire everything! I think I've learned to enjoy our everyday surroundings. things that most people take for granted.

Linda Morris from Hertford, NC writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings when I paint . As I look for painting sites, my senses become 'fine tuned'.I can sense what wants to be painted and what shouldn't be and this has nothing to do with the the subject. The same thing accours when painting a still life with flowers. The flowers have moods of their own and their fragrance aids the artist in conveying this to the canvas. My favorite work is showing alot of light and yellows. I have never met another artist who was not connected to nature.

Robert Beam from Colorado writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
visiting the ruins of the ancient Native Americans who built homes from nature's bounty. Over ions of time nature slowly reclaims that which she gave forth to sustain those that have gone before.

Schlegelmilch from Berlin...and Fh Harz writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
The share of fantasie in perception becomes evident in the depiction of landscape. Landscapes resemble fantasies. They constitute by their form, colour, atmosphere etc. a surounding or an encounter which at the moment of perception is exclusive. Landscape therefore lends itself to signify visual and emotional wishes. One feels senual, elated, expanded or secure; one succumbs to the (dreamlike) imagery of elements of landscape; and one identifies with the soils contours, mountains, trees, allowing the body to experience new (or affirmative) self-images, - and enjoyment. I'm looking for poeple with any extraordinary passionate, sensual or phantastical relationship towards Landscapes. People, who experience something unexplainable by beeing out in the country or on the sea. Those experiences might happen during intimate moments out in the country, but also in sports like diving, mountainclimbing, sailing, tracking, etc. Please tell me about your relation to nature, your wishes, utopies, lonelyness, fears or thoughts. Are there moments in wich you feel to be part of your surrounding? Or when you loose any concern, are child again? What are you looking for? Did the thought or fear of death come into your mind in connection with your experiences? I'm working on a project (film and installation) on this subjekt. And I'm very interested in a discussion with you. Although quite intimate seems this subject to have a utopien and social potency that I would like to get to know. Contact schlegel@fh-harz.de I won't be able to answer before 20th of july.

chris coad from manhattan writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I realize the extreme power that God has. He controls everything. I also realized that if you trust a brother they are going to look out for you

Team Manatee from Beaufort, South Carolina (RSMS) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...

Dawn Hall: I feel good when I get into nature. Every day I hear new things. I see a lot of things. I can feel free and dance too.

Vincent Dean: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets a good feeling when I1m at the beach at night with on one is there , got a fire going and just relaxing , hearing the waves roll up on the beach, hearing the fire pop.

Lacree Harris: I feel good when I see things. When I'm around trees and it1s dark I can hear the noises coming from the woods.I can hear the movements from the trees.

Richard Sanders: My nature experience shows me that I'm a person who gets good feelings when it1s quiet and nothing1s around. You can only hear the birds and the bees, the flowers and trees.

Antonidies Scott: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings, from going outside and hearing things. It makes me feel good, by listening to what nature might be saying outside. When I go outside the nice cool breeze is blowing on me. I hear all the songs that nature can make.

Benjamin White: At night time in my room I feel like I have worked my behind off . Just laying on my bed, hearing frogs croak, seems like I1m on a honeymoon.

D1andrea Cooper: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings by listening to a mockingbird sing and while walking out into the real world . Nature is just like a mother who takes good care of the creatures in this beautiful world by hearing the crickets cheep and looking at the spider webs that look like silk.

Jermaine Young: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings when I go camping in the wild with the other scouts. I like it when we gather around the camp fire and tell ghost stories.

JATIA ALSTON: My nature experience shows me that I'm a person who gets good feelings when I smell fresh green grass after it1s been cut . I like to listen to the noises of the animals during the day and night .I like to listen to the wind blow and the thunder roll and the lightning flash. I like to hear the water crashing against the rocks.

Kimberly Lawton: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings by sitting outside, looking at the woods, smelling the fresh air God gives me. I also like listening to animals up above, and looking at the pretty green leaves fall from above. May god bless nature.

Christy Melton: My nature experience shows me that I`m a person who gets good feelings when I go to the beach, especially early in the morning. The dew has just formed on the ground and I hear nothing but the waves crashing on the sand. The seagulls fuss for food and as the wind blows the sand around, it makes a whistling sound .

Jerome Willis: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings from sitting under a tree. It makes me feels so cool.

Jessica Chisolm: My nature experience shows me that I'm a person who gets good feelings by going down by the river bank and laying on the cold sand . It helps me to think about things I never thought of before. It also helps me to let my thoughts run wild.

Natarsha Jenkins: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings by listening to the sound of birds and bees filling the air. When I walk out side I can hear lots of things and enjoy looking at all the wonderful insects.

APRIL LEAMON : My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings when I see the lady bugs and smell the beautiful marigolds. They help me to realize how special we are to live on this earth.

Natasha Green: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings when I go on the beach alone and sit and listen to the waves as they hit the sand. I like watching and listening to different animals while they eat and sing. This tells me that earth is a very special place for me.

Cassandra Whipkey: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings when I walk down the beach along the edge of the water, listening to the waves. Latrica Cannady: My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings when I can smell flowers as they grow. The smell of a daisy makes me feel like I1m in a great heavenly garden. The look of a rose makes me think about a loved one. When they are finished growing, you can smell all the wonderful aromas they create.

Larry Melzer from Portland OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I found myself gazing into the reflection of a Big Leaf Maple in the water. The longer I looked, the deeper the reflection became growing with no bounds, changing with movement of water. It became almost a mystical place. As I looked up I was inside this space and felt blessed to be.

Linda Robins from Portland OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from seeing a single drop of water on a tiny flower and finding deer tracks in the sand

Sarah Small from Portland OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the water on yellow flowers in my mouth and across my cheeks. From discovering gray lichen and green fuzzy moss on the shady side of this old fence

Shann Weston from Oregon writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
When I look - look and really see- the sky and the clouds- I feel myself as part of the earth, sheltered and cared for by this protective atmosphere around us that permits the miracle of life.

Larry Muir from Redwood, CA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I see a person1s reasoning bring them to let themselves merge with nature, connect with Earth and recognize the magic comfort and wisdom in doing so.

Mary Blake from Seaside writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
I observe the shy and moving leaves in the wind. Listen to the sound of the birds and whisper of the wind through the trees, bushes , over the water. Lay on the cool ground covered with moist moss. I observe and experience with my sense and memory present.

Deborah Bowmen from Tallamook , OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by smelling sweet floral fragrances, seeing and feeling the textures of nature tree bark, stones, velvet mosses, tough mushrooms and feeling moist soil,, filtered through overhead leaves or strongly focused with a balancing cool breeze warm my entire soul. It draws me to it. I lift my face toward it.

Henry Damid from Michigan writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
enjoying the pulpy interior of a rotting stump and sensing how it gives life

Pat Opdyke from Portland, writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the quietness when I listen for the faint bird calls over the sounds of water and insects flying through a pale sky of sun.

xx from Washington DC writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
From listening to the water and knowing that I can enjoy this sound forever. When I can watch the ripples and smile instinctively

Anthony Richardson from Portland writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
When I can only see and hear nature1s variety of sounds, colors, movement and warmth. It takes me out of myself and into Me, who is also one with nature.

Nancy Pollot from OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
being in a spring-time forest lush with rain smells and the music of bird song and the running river all ensconced in a world of green

Janet E Linnell, Sr. from Boring OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from sunlight falling through lacy leaves warming damp earth and casting still life photo1s of the trees --when the busy calls and chatter of birds in the forest reminds me to anticipate the next rain shower. --by imagining other creatures living in the past or future when a steamy mist rises from the rich forest floor. --when I feel the low and pulse of the river and sense a oneness with life around me.

Ron Garst from Portland OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
being connected to a place because of the awareness of all the senses that open up, with more awareness of more senses, with more openness, with more awareness, with more...a never ending circle of being connected.

Linda Robinson from Portland OR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
Listen to moving water and the wind in the trees, watching a bird build its nest, and smelling an old cedar stump when the sun shines on it after a shower

'Anonymous' (Susan) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
sharing a walk in the park with my friend. I encouraged a friend who had been at the computer all day to come outside and go for a walk with me in a park close to his house. There were ducks swimming in the pond, the grass was very green, and the weather was great. We did cartwheels, summersaults, and rolled down one of the hills. My friend, who had not been feeling well, felt much better and so did I.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from lying in an open field--dampened by a morning dew--catching a golden tear drop from the sun above--melting on a sky of blue. I embrace the hope flowering in a lavendered petatled trail.

Pat Hines from Boise, Idaho writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I am laying on the gournd , looking at the sky. I am part of an amazing part of a part of a part.....

Katherine Doris from San Juan County writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from being near a watery place and being so still that birds come close by. I loose the sense of time as I stay still and hear the water gurgle and move at different speeds. Such simple place becomes complex as more and more of my senses enjoy the place I'm at. Such a simple place could entertain and nurture me for a long long time

Che Blaine from Eastsound, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I lie down and let Mother Earth re-teach me the balance insider her - inside me.

Carrie Fisher from Friday writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the smell of fuzzy moss growing on a rocky hill and the cool breeze also carrying the faint smell of flowers. I feel the energy from the earth restoring me.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from large trees when I rest my back against their firm but soft bark while sitting on the pillow-like light greeness of the moss, with the dappled filtered sunlight showing me the details of the forest floor. It is alive. It invites me to sit and be -no judgement - I am me, this tree is a tree- we are all free.

Barbara Gilmore from Graston, WI writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I experience interspecies communication.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when allowing myself to slow down and let my senses experience the natural world -smelling the earth, hearing birds, feeling the grasses coolness, feeling the sun's warmth, seeing the details of flowers and plants.

Gerry Pinkowsky from Cedarburg, WI writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by visual observation of differences in color and texture, the newness in some things that surround me at the same time I am surrounded by decades of life, death and renewal.

Salim Bailey from Eastsound, WA, writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I sit near, or against, or under trees. While next to an apppletree, I noticed 3 kinds of moss growing on the base of the tree. I felt peace, rest, heard many birdsongs. My bare feet were stretched into the sun, and my face shaded. There were 3 trees near to each other , all apple. I sensed a companionship between them, an amiability that drew me to lie by them and look up at the blue sky between tender new green leaves.

Anita Holladay from Orcas Island, WA, writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
glimpsing rainbow colors in the spider web strands that stretch between the newly leafing apple branches.

Mary Meyer from San Juan County, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from sitting in the lacy shade of an apple tree, enjoying the warmth of the sun and the cool blend of the lacy shade...The new leaves tooo are enjoying the sun, the motherly branches lifting them up to the sun god -we worship and grow together

Daniel McCarty from Washington State writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I'm safe and protected, breathing properly in Rhythm with Nature. My mind relaxing as the warm sun heals my body. Thank you Nature for life and breath. I empty my thoughts that have been runnnig though like a train in my brain. My body is at ease my senses are pleased.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from a Maple tree in the Forest of Earth in the Sunshine, in the Spring blue blue sky. Newly emerging yellow green Life force, a light amoung the Evergreen attracts me to my Self. Oneness of SoulNature.

Louise Smith from Eastsound, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the sight and sound of water: babbling brook, miniature water falls, placid lakes or rolling oceans

'Anonymous' (your name here) from Tennessee writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by 'looking' at a lowly dandelion. The round flaming yellow flower, the swaying white globe. It's the sun and the moon! Why haven't I seen this before? Too preoccupied to see nature.

Marcos Deflur from Moran Park, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I realize that I don't need to alter my space or go anywhere to feel happiness. just breath and all is right there always.

Bill Urichel from Eastsound, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
being in a natural selling and sharing the sense of wholeness that I find there.

Paula from USA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I alllow myself to explore what interest me, be it a path through the brush or music, etc.

Ron Slalayh from Olga, WA. writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
sensing my connections to the sun, the grass, the bumblebees and the distant hill.

Debbie Tallarico from Lopez Island, WA, writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from a connected sense of knowing where verbal language isn't spoken as an attempt to impress with the ego, but rather where speaking from my heart has the quiet it needs to be heard and to hear other hearts.

Bob Mancusa from Friday Harbor, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
always by being close to larger trees. Physically contacting a large tree, by holding or leaning against its trunk, causes me to sense a timeless rootedness with a strong life force. This energy within me always creates tranquility.

Mary Berry from Milwaukee, WI writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the same air that hums past my ear and sings through the grass, sits under the wing of the hawks and gulls, bends the trees, dries the sand.......

Will Ganschow from Bellingham, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
watching billowing clouds evolve, reminding me of the constant change taking place all about me.

Jen Conway from Washington, USA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by sitting on the ground smelling the air, hearing the birds sing, feeling the air moving through my hair. When I sit still and listen, nature says to me I belong in a natural world.

Damon Wright from San Diego, CA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from a small circle of earth in a lawn, the longer you look the larger it seems. Blades of grass become trees, weeds look like big bushels of buds.

jennifer woodward from students writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EARTH DAY

Serena Lockwood from Friday Harbor, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by watching silhouetted trees in the dark. I can hear the rustling of the tree tops in the distance until the breeze brushes my cheeks and then passes on. Life doesn't stagnate but pulsates, bringing a charge of energy and then dissipates to a soothing calm.

Emma Flats from the computer writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
looking up at the moon and stars' glow, softened by the rising night mists. I feel nature softens the hard edges of everyday life.

Phantom from Friday Harbor, Wa writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from lying in the sun, my body absorbing and melting in the heat. I feel relaxed and held by the sun's warm embrace.

Michael from Morin Heights, Canada writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
... when I take the time to shut off the inner chatter and explore nature with many senses When I do so, I feel that I a part of a huge organism called earth, and that I share in the collective wisdom and strength of Earth. These activities which I have been doing are deceptively simple: they are powerful and healing.

Archangel from State of NY writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from all the beauty of Nature. The birds,flowers,trees and all the creatures of the earth. Life has so much for one to experience.

Heidi Worminghaus from Sheboygan, WI writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the wind on my face, the warmth of the sun, the crunch of dry grass, the soft, moist cushion of moss; the sight of two eagles soaring reaffirming the rightness of gathering with people of like mind who get the same feelings out of these things as I do.

Kirsten from Charlottesville, Virginia writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from luminous celestial visitors to our night sky, like the Comet Hyakutake. The benevolent presence of the Comet reminds me that the cycle of existence is by necessity a dynamic process which can have unprecedented implications, and is influenced by each action/thought we take. The Comet's cool glow, visible even from through the light and air pollution of our city, reveals to me the cosmic love in the universe, which turns a feeling eye to when I realize I am a part of the Mystery.

David Dallaire from dallaird@cadvision writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
of gratitude and equanimity by wandering under the stars that cradle our humble planet, thinking of the incredible possibilities for all living things. When I focus on the connection of it all, I am amazed and renewed. My purpose is clearer now ...

Diana from Arkansas writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by combining the colors of the sunset with the land and realizing earth and sky are one.

Nadine from Kamloops, B.C. Canada writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from water. I love the sound of the water, whether it's a trickling spring, a runshing river, or the crashing waves of the ocean. It gives me a peaceul and serene feeling. Allows me to clear my head and relax.

Ron Vandom from Idaho writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
listening to the river-it's smell, its calling quiet, releasing sounds.

Carrie from Ireland writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by seeing spring buds on a tree. This makes me feel alive with everything growing after a winter's rest.

Algy from Tennessee writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
Sharing seeds of heirloom and endangered species with other gardeners. There is a great pleasure in knowing that you are growing something that is rare, beautiful, and threatened. I've created a web page to exchange seeds with others who want to encourage biodiversity. http://frank.mtsu.edu/~sward/SEEDBOARD/seedboard.html

Fred from Virginia Beach, VA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
Looking for activities that can be done for Earth Day at an elementary school. Activities should be for school-wide and specificd grades, K-5. Would appreciate any ideas...thanks, ftm

Margaret Harris from Clinton, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from looking at new buds on this otherwise bare tree. It reminds me of renewed life, growth and cycles of the seasons. Hope of rejuvenation.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from Paris, France writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by the magnificant, powerful entwining of the trees reaching out to others and the unending sky.

Donny Roush from Idaho Falls, ID writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I watched a pair of mallards. I was attracted to their togetherness and alertness.

Kerry Jacobson from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by taking off my shoes and feeling the cold grass squish between my toes.

Brian Gardner from Merihan, ID writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I sit down in nature and I look at all the things and hear the sounds that it has to offer. I like watching the water flow gracefully down stream.

Brenda from Boise Idaho writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the river. Although it is fast and dangerous, the sound is very soothing and peaceful. It is cool to the touch.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from looking at healthy plants, particularly ones with blossoms.

Roger Harrison from Clinton WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when being with running water in the cool of the evening...the sound and the presence of the water are calming and peaceful

Michael T. Bishop from Idaho writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from meeting a gentleman (Mike Cohen) that is truly passionate about his connection with nature.

Sea Franklin from willsea@rockisland.com writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from organizing Reconnecting workshops which bring people together and validate the senses we were born with! We are nature. I believe in the POWER of reestablishing connection to the natural world. This connection has taught me GENTLENESS to self and environment.

Sea Franklin from willsea@rockisland.com writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
being in the stillness of a natural area, walking through woods to discover all the life on the forest floor, like moss, mushrooms, grasses; hearing other people's experiences with connecting with nature; eating natural foods prepared with love; being around other people who have connected with nature because they radiate such a deep stillness it is very nurturing to be with them.

Sea Franklin from San Juan Island writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from inner support, as nature and community support me fully. I, in turn support others and the natural world in its way of living.

Kim Hoita from Lion's Head, Ontario writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I am harmoniously cooperating with what Nature is asking of me. To think that I am separate from Nature is like trying to separate one part of the sky from the rest.

John Hoita from Lion's Head writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
knowing that I am responsible for how I am relating to Nature in spite of how I am feeling at the time. My seven year old son Jamie helped me with this Haiku. To live, drink water. Water is the Planet's blood. To die, pollute it.

Bruce Peninsula Environment Group from Ontario writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by knowing that I am more LIVED by Nature than simply living a life.

John T. Hoita, D.Ac. from Lion's Head, Ontario writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I pay attention to what Nature is asking of me and I exercise self-disciplined, cooperative behaviour.

Bart from Williams, AR writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when sleeping in beauty and sunshine.

Joyce Sobel from Friday Harbor, Washington writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from a total immersion in and absorption by the natural world. I am reminded repeatedly of the interdependence of all life: through the juxtaposition of new growth and decay; through the robin munching on the madrona berry. I am amazed at both the intricate detail in a clump of lichen and the majestic splendor of the vista across the valley - the largeness and the smallness, the finite and the infinite of it all. I can hear the quiet and feel my inner peace and strength when I open myself to receive and to be received by our Mother. I feel sad knowing I abandon the Source at some times in my life. I recognize these are times when I feel stressed.

Suli from Endless Mountains, PA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
By digging in the earth to plant and watching things grow: From feeling the power of the wind and the freshness of the Spring air. Watching the seasons change with growing awareness of the passage of time and the miracle of nature.

Lou Heather from Texas writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from a gathering of feeding shorebirds reaffirming the rightness of gathering with people of like mind who get the same feelings out of these things as I do.

Kathy from Idaho writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from the wind on my face, the warmth of the sun, the crunch of dry grass, the soft, moist cushion of moss; the sight of two eagles soaring.

Bill Borden from Aspen, Colorado writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
of thankfulness that when I'm in nature, my mind is peaceful and I am centered.

Jake from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by being at the ocean. By watching the endless flow of water slowly moving towards the land. By knowing that that was once my ancient home, and the sea creatures are my brothers and sisters. The water cleanses me and makes me feel whole and healed again.

Henry David from Eastsound, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from my awareness that nature's presence can help me to connect with other people who value their attraction to nature.

Michelle from Paradise writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I play outside with my 2 young daughters. We pretend to be trees, with birds who make their homes in us. We reach our arms tall into the sky, and move our heads and bodies in the breezes. We feel wise and old, like the giant redwood trees near the sea. Squirrels climb upon us, and we giggle. I experience such joy being a child again with my own children, such fun and happiness being outside in nature with the sun and sky shining upon us...and smiling with us.

Paul from Carbondale, Illinois writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
and moved emotionally when I thank the trees for their presence and friendship.

Maya Moreno from Arizona writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
whenever I feel the sun and wind upon my face. In the open spaces of the desert, the sun warms me and makes me feel relaxed, calm and alive. When the winds blow, the spirit within me takes flight, and I soar like a bird. Often when I feel the sun and wind, I become like a child, running and skipping along through the cactus and sagebrush of this beautifully colored world of sand and rock. My soul becomes red and orange, my spirit feels fiery and free.

Anna Selkirk from Orlando, Florida writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from a certain vitality in this stream. I felt invigorated, energized! It was as if I connected with an explosion of life.

Meagan from Woodland, Ca. writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
whenever I pretend to be a cat in my backyard. I crawl around and sniff for prey, and I become wild and free. I feel my muscles move like a cat, and I stop to smell the fragrances of all the flowers. I feel happy and playful doing this...it makes me laugh, and somehow I know that the tall grasses and flowers laugh with me. It feels good and fun!

Michael from Lachute, Canada writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
from being like a child learning about the world for the first time.

Carol Biggs from Alaska writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by experiencing my senses of trust, safety, community, humor, pleasure, companionship, belonging, support, thankfulness, and others, growing in relation to other people, as my unfulfilled natural senses get nourished, and as I become more aware that people's negatives actually reflect unfulfilled natural senses.

Linda Copes from Northern California writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
feeling the swaying motions of my willow tree....they allow me to let go of rigid feelings and thoughts, and let me dance as one with the wind. As part of life I deserve to be happy, joyful and at peace. Being one with this beautiful earth is my sacred and ancient birthright.

Carol Biggs from Alaska writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by knowing that hearing and following my natural attractions (when I can recognize them) leads to stability and security. My foremost natural attraction is to the outdoors, so that's where I need to be. I feel good letting natural attractions call me, like this morning when I saw the porpoises. My sense of pleasure was overflowingly fulfilled.

Arja-Kaisa from Canada writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
by being outside breathing the cold, brisk wintry air. I feel it fill me with life and energy. I feel in harmony with all that is when I am outside enjoying fresh air and (being) connected with nature. I enjoy feeling nature's healing effects.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...
when I am aware that the wind is blowing through my hair.

Ken Johnson from Corpus Christi, TX, U.S.A. writes:
simply by being outdoors in the warm sunshine listening to the symphony of birds singing and the rustle of leaves as the wind blows through the leaves. A feeling of peace, wellbeing, and contentment floods through me. When I first moved to Corpus Christi from Chicago four years ago, I ate almost every meal outdoors in my back yard listening to nature in this way. It provides an exhilaration that is never available indoors.

'Anonymous' from 'somewhere' writes:
My nature experiences shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings from silently watching and hearing a bee in a flower. I love watching different things in nature nurture each other. They have a special beauty. They tell me that nature can be a safe and enjoyable dance.

Cynthia Taylor from Rapid City, SD writes:
I am a person who gets good feelings from watching clouds drift in the sky. They way they make shapes and grow intrigues me.

Jim Caster from Big Sur, Ca writes:
I get good felings from being on the seashore and wading in the waves, being rocked by their motion and hiss.

Alice from Missouri writes:
I get good feelings watching birds, but I feel terrible about what is happening to the natural environment.

Patrick Sylvester from Los Angeles writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...... speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:8-10

Arthur Kappler from Rohnert Park, CA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...I made an error, provided my experience as part of "applied theory" above.

Linda Copes from 'Northern California writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings from experiencing the many living aspects of the deep rich green softness of the moss in this area. As I press my face and body into the dark dampness of the earth beneath the moss, I sense a profoundly ancient knowledge and wisdom that flows through my being and connects my inner nature with the joy, oneness, and perfection of all life. I enjoy the essences of the colors of green, brown, and blue shining within me, linking me with the beauty of earth and sky. As my senses of peace and tranquility deepen, I feel each tiny shoot of moss connect with each cell in my body to reach up together in celebration of life, and each tiny root connects plant and me to the core of this living earth, and to all humans and animals here, filling me with a warm, supportive sense of community, friendship, and unity with all life.

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Kirsten from Charlottesville, Virginia writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...from luminous celestial visitors to our night sky, like the Comet Hyakutake. The benevolent presence of the Comet reminds me that the cycle of existence is by necessity a dynamic process which can have unprecedented implications, and is influenced by each action/thought we take. The Comet's cool glow, visible even from through the light and air pollution of our city, reveals to me the cosmic love in the universe, which turns a feeling eye to the My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...My experience in nature shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings from the wind on my face, the warmth of the sun, the crunch of dry grass, the soft, moist cushion of moss; the sight of two eagles soaring reaffirming the rightness of gathering with people of like mind who get the same feelings out of these things as I do.

Heidi Worminghaus from Sheboygan, WI writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...My experience in nature shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings when I realize I am a part of the Mystery.

Barry Fraser from Talalahassee, FL writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by touching and feeling the spirit of a grandmother tree who cradles me in her arms and sings to me with the voices of the wind.

Melissa Cottrell from Redmond WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...smelling sweet thing on the air, hearing the wind in the trees and feeling the warm sun on my body as I lay on the earth.

Will Ganschow from Bellingham writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...smelling the wood smoke in the cold clear morning air. It told me of warmth and safety if I needed it and emboldened me to seek new attractions outdoors.

Mike Cohen from Friday Harbor, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...from this bright white-green lichen growing on a dead branch. It shines like a galaxy in this dark woods. It reminds me that everything alive or dead has value in its natural state and makes a contribution to the betterment of all. I wonder if the lichen knows where it starts and the dead wood stops.

M9lis Heymans from Redmonds WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...from the 3ahhh2 as opposed to 3a-ha2 of turning off the thinking mind and turning into my senses.

Heidi Worminghaus from Sheboygan, WI writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...when I realize nothing can take away my awareness of the Life Force we all contain, only sometimes I forget. With my totem birds I am guided and fly free, with the mountains I find my inner strength, with the water I flow, with the sun I shine and with the wind my heart remembers.

Barry Fraser from Tallahassee, FL writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by enjoying the swiftness and gracefulness of the eagle, setting my spirit free to touch all the earth that is stretched out before me.

Melissa Cottrell from Redmond WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by playing-jumping from rock to rock.

Will Ganschow from Bellingham, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...from what might be called our trust circle of friends, being able to sense what supporting the 3in center2 person conveyed to me and my sense of trust of the circle members ability to support me.

Mike Cohen from Friday Harbor, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by introducing anther person to nature's beauty.

M9lis Heymans mliss@aol.com from Redmonds WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...from giving back a THANK YOU after taking in a nose full of the aroma of fresh dirt, an eyeful of so many different shades of green and an earful of melodies from birds.

Barry Fraser from Tallahassee, FL writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by enjoying the swiftness and gracefulness of the eagle, setting my spirit free to touch all the earth that is stretched out before me.

Melissa Cottrell from Redmond WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...from a very big old tree and a very small new tree too.

Will Ganschow from Bellingham WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by interacting with a variety of natural entities, a Doug Fir sapling, a Madrona leaf, a boulder, a dandelion. I enjoyed using my whole being to bring each to the brink of tearing them from their present connections without doing something to hurt them. I was grateful to experience the saplings alarm and thanked it for warning me thusly.

Mike Cohen from Friday Harbor, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...knowing the natural community through sensations and attractions.

M'lis Heymans from Redmonds WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by pretending that I Am the moss looking up at the foot that soon steps on it, that I Am the tree swaying gently in the breeze, that I Am the little bug with tiny iridescent wings, that I Am the wind able to playfully wander through someone9s hair and bring sweet smells to noses far away

M'lis Heymans from Redmonds WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...by pretending that I Am the moss looking up at the foot that soon steps on it, that I Am the tree swaying gently in the breeze, that I Am the little bug with tiny iridescent wings, that I Am the wind able to playfully wander through someone9s hair and bring sweet smells to noses far away

Will Ganschow from Bellingham, WA writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...rom the tenderness of a dandelion, of how, even as I exhibited overwhelming strength, it gently nestled against my finger. Returning from a momentary interlude of tears, I found a bee hovering on the dandelion with one appendage reaching down into the flower, validating its place in nature and my ability to refrain from uprooting it.

pondlady from New Orleans, Lousiana writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings... When I reached through the moss blanket to the rock beneath. I could feel the heat in its coolness, the fragility in its strength, It spoke to me of myself, in yesterdays, in today and in tomorrow and of each of us in the other, asssuring continuity, community and wonder.

'Anonymous' (your name here) from 'nowhere' (your location here) writes:
My nature experience shows me that I am a person who gets good feelings...from enjoying moss covered bedrock with the moss color so vivid it glows, and coming upon early spring wild flowers, purple shooting stars, touching satin feeling leaves, smelling a pungent onion-like odor, and then when I sat down and looked closer, noticed a plant and then another and another with tiny tiny blue flowers and leaves. I could eat it and get a sour taste. All this experience shows me, so dramatically, that I'm indeed a person who is able to get wonderful feeling from nature. I am developing a habit of giving myself these experiences on a regular basis, stopping on my walks to notice what I'm attracted to and the feelings I have. I allow my natural senses to deepen and expand. I enjoy the beauty of the land, -the many shades of the color green, -making contact, -the feel of the sun on my face, -the bright light on the water off the straights, -coming over a hill and seeing Mt. Baker, -closing my eyes in nature, -seeing the soon to come Madrona flowers.