There are still wild lands for us to walk. Untamed spaces that are not made small by what we hold as great. No law or papered economy or social mean as bars to our minds. No fantastic fear or romanced ideal to hold the heart. No path for our feet, or place to be, other than the invitation of that moment. And when we walk quietly in these wild places, eyes resting on real horizons, ears open to the conversation of birds and the song of our hearts, we remember our selves. We find our selves in relation to all life and so come to know our place on earth.
Purely Wild wilderness encounters provides a living space where you have an opportunity to encounter, confront and transcend the limits that restrict your sense of well-being. The embodied change you may find is not self-directed but co-created with the natural world. These changes are then integrated into your everyday life in a way that facilitates happiness, wholeness and a greater sense of purpose.
Wild Geese
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
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