"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop like autumn leaves."
~John Muir
"Our National Parks"
This quote perfectly describes how I feel when I am able to steal away on a hike or hidden path. When the wind blows I can feel it tinglie throughout my entire body like the blood in my veins is bubbling with excitement. Getting caught up in the moment and movement around you makes your thoughts, cares and worries drift away in the breeze, or as beautifully put by Muir, "drop like autumn leaves."
And nothing comes close to the excitement I get from being outside in a thunderstorm. I have been fortunate enough to have spent some time in Italy when I was younger. I lived for a month in a little town just below the Italian Alps called Udine. Over the month I got to watch numerous thunderstorms creeping slowly over the looming mountains towards our house. With just wooden shutters covering the windows I had no screen to hinder the view from my second story bedroom.
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