Favorite thing about the woods

[jon12345]

Is that they will never LIE to you.   >:(

They may decieve you, but a tree cannot keep all its secrets forever.


What is your favorite thing about the woods?

[Radar67]

Everything, mainly the peace and solitude. A walk through the woods has a calming effect on me.

[Don K]

That's the truth!  ;D         If you want to leave the world behind for a while, go climb into a treestand for a while and leave the bullets at home and watch nature go at it's everyday pace for a while.  It's good for the soul.

[Coon]

My most favorite thingabout the woods, is that mother nature will take care of you , if you do your part in taking care of her.  She will nourish you with wild game and birds,fish and, with plenty of firewood for years to come PROVING that you do your part in keeping the woods and the lakes, rivers, and marshes clean of all harmful sources.  A careful plan is needed for a succesfull slect harvest whether it be mentally or physically.  Listening to mother nature will answer many of your questions in a lifetime as long as you take the time to think before you act upon it.  Think of the possible effects that you could could cause by doing even the littlest of actions.  Take responsibility for it. If you see a piece of garbage pick it up and dispose of it properly.  I hope that this doesn't make me sound like I am a big environmentalist but I do my part in trying to preserve what we have got today.  We want for our children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy those things in life such as nature. If we don't act today will we ever.

[jon12345]

Was a little peeved when I started the topic...

I may have grown up in recent times, but I see a lot of people from my generation that have totally different morals than I have and it's starting to get to me...but maybe the problem started with their parents, not them. 

I guess what I was getting at is that the forest is what it is, and always will be, unlike people, it just gets older, but doesn't really change much other than that.  It has no loyalties except to itself and no one to impress.

The forest can provide for us, food, shelter, entertainment, water, what more do we need?  Human companionship is great, but I'd trade a lot of people's for that of a deer.  :D  In the forest all the species spend their time worryin about survival. Maybe if people didnt have so much time on thier hands and needed to play a bigger part in their own survival things wouldnt be the way they are today :-\

[crtreedude]

This may seem a touch odd, but one of the things I love about the woods is seeing things older than I am  (which is getting harder and harder..  : ) and that will be around after I am gone.

This tends to relax me realizing that it really isn't up to me to fix everything - just do my part while I am here, just like the trees in the forest.

[sawguy21]

Everything, mainly the peace and solitude. A walk through the woods has a calming effect on me.

That is it for me too. It is a time out and a real treat. I enjoy sitting quietly and wait for the life around me to return to normal after my intrusion.

[Button]

 The effect the woods have on me. When I am in the middle of the back 40, my head deflates, I feel like a tick in the hair of mother's earth, so small, humble,insignificant. I fire up the 365 and say "now mother it's just a trim"

[Max sawdust]

You guys summed it up with Peace-Solitude the sense of being small and the fact that it contains everything a human needs (exept for the companion) but why ???

Here is one thing that comes to mind for me this busy time of year:
I think it is because the woods runs on a different clock, yes the woods is a busy place everything living is struggling to stay alive, but the pace is different than our artifical clocks, and it is naturally relaxing and comforting.

Max

[Todd]

The solitude is definetely the allure.  When I was living in Montana, I'd stop on my way home from work every night during hunting season and take my Mustang up a logging trail as far as I could, then spin it around and do a little hunting.  Locals at the bar would question my hunting on a mountain with little game, but I never saw another soul up there and came home feeling good every night.  (of course, that was before I had my mill....now I walk through the woods and can't stop looking for those trees that would look beutiful in my log pile ;)
Todd

[Burlkraft]

You guy's are so very right.............

The woods doesn't talk back or lie or argue or make empty promises.....The woods is what the woods is. I wish more people were like that...You get what you see, but she is full of pleasant little surprises....Like curl and quilt and burl......I love burl................. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

[Texas Ranger]

The woods have given my family shelter and sustainance for over 40 years, and I hope I have given back more than I have taken.

There is a stand of pine near me that was planted some 30 years ago, several years back I took a preacher friend to that woods to show him natures church.  The stems were evenly spaced, the boles clean of limbs, and the crown arched over the ground covered in fern, the whole picture was one of a church with columns, a vaulted ceiling, and a plush green carpet.

My preacher friend, knowing my feelings for the woods, was pleased to share this, and told me he understood why I looked forward to every job in the woods.  He thanked me for sharing a moment of time.

[PawNature]

Trying to imagine what he earliest settlers must have felt when entering new territory. Being alone and no one to come to their aid if anything happened. I used to think I would have loved to live back in the 1700 or so. But I finally realized that I am perfectly happy right where I am. I have seen more country in a day that most pioneers saw in a lifetime. And as far as being alone and no one to help. All I have to do is go to LA or NYC, or Chicago.

[crtreedude]

We are about to go to the wildest of our fincas - the one with the 20 foot boa - and hang out for a couple of days. There is a big fiesta down at the other finca too that we will go to (no Harold, I won't be required to help with either the tamales or the butchering the pig...)

I am so tired from working so much that this evening will just be doing nothing except hanging out with my wife. This will be good.

[iain]

Trees



iain

[Ironwood]

The earthy smell of a wet deciduous layer of humus (sic?) especially here in Pa. mixed with fern odor. And SHADEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Reid

[Murf]

Lookin' down at them from a 1,000' feet up and admiring the Lord's lovely work......... 

Sometimes I even spot a critter or two lookin' up an tryin' ta figger out what in tarnasion is dat up der?

smiley_greg_walking_stilts

Da view is better up der fer sure...........

[Button]

  Oh I forgot the little "no" things like

No wife,no kids,no cell phones,no faxes,no pagers,no putors,no neighbors,no people,no bosses,no supervisers,no tv's,no video games,no lawyers,no credit cards,no clocks,no timeclocks,no commercialization of christmas,no vcr's,no dvd's,no politicians,no outlaws,no inlaws,no relatives,no cats, no dogs,no horses,no cooking,no cleaning,no nagging,no crying,no honey doo's,no "could you....", just me and my saw, I guess it is the little things that count. Enjoy the woods
Peter

[thecfarm]

Trying to make the forest work for me.Be it cutting down trees without leaving behind a big mess.Making new twitch trails through the woods.Sawing up the trees into lumber and building something out of what I did.Watching the wildlife enjoying the woods.Looking to see the tracks of any animals that have been there while I was gone.Just the sounds of the woods is something to enjoy.

[toxedo_2000]

I like to hear the trees grow ! :D
And the odor of the pine I am sawing :
The sky and the forest, I dont now wich I like the most. They are inseparable

[Ed_K]

 Two day ago I pulled into an area I've been cut in, and saw 2 does feeding on some tops from the day before. They started to run off and I blatted at them. They stoped 50 yds off and watched as I dropped a couple black birch, limbed them hooked up an left. As I pulled out they when right back to eating. I have a real respect for the woods.

[thecfarm]

I have on 2 seperate times had to stop and watch a deer go in front of a running tractor when I was cutting wood.I think I would of run into her if I wouldn't of stopped.I doubt that I would of hit her,but I still wonder what would of happened if I didn't stop.This is in off season,of course.

[tmullen]

Favorite thing about the woods

It's HOME!!! ;D ;D

[Skytramp]

I live on the same property that I was born on, have added a few things to it, some beautiful, some not, but life is what it is.
     I had a small pond dug where I had planned a lake as a child,  I am not sure but what I enjoy the pond as much as I would have the lake.  I have planted grass for the deer and turkey and keep corn out pretty much year round and always put out hay in the winter, I also built a tree stand in a large post oak tree about 20 yards from the pond.  I framed it up and have enclosed it with camaflage.  My daughter, ( the last of the nine, now 15 years old ) and I have spent many hours in that little enclosure, sometimes with a gun sometimes with a camera.  The animals seem to know when we have just the camera. It seems to be just ours, other people have used it and we are a little protective, and neither of us seems to stay long if the other is not along.  When she was younger she ran off the big buck with her oooing, and the turkey sometime spot us because she still can't keep still but I wouldn't trade that spot in the woods and those memories for anything in the world.  I know that someday some guy will come along and take her away from me but that is the way it is supposed to be and I will  turn it over to her and let them continue to enjoy it.  We add a little something every year to improve it. 
     We have a lot of Cherokee blood and the Old Indians always believed that they didn't really own anything, they just used it while they were here and then it was someone elses duty.  I hope that when my time is up, I have lived up to and and taught my daughter to respect that duty.
SkyTramp;

[IMERC]

What is your favorite thing about the woods?

gotta be the peace, quiet and solitude. the woods are 1st nature to me. Home.

[boboak]

  The peace and quiet and solitude are what draws me back to the woods every time.  I've tried a lot of other ways of making a living but the woods have a stronger claim to me than anything else.  What I like best about the woods is the way it allows you to watch mother nature heal itself.  We do a lot of clear cutting and quite frankly theres nothing reallly any uglier than a clear cut.  But if you come back next year you'll see the healing process beginning and after five years everything is starting to look real good again.  After ten years its hard to tell that man was ever there and after twenty years you have the beginnings of another real forest.  We re-plant heavily and it pays off.  I like to take my boy with me and show him places that we logged years ago and what it looks like now.  I tell him to bring his children and someday their children to these same places and they can see nature restoring itself.

[Max sawdust]

I have on 2 seperate times had to stop and watch a deer go in front of a running tractor when I was cutting wood.I think I would of run into her if I wouldn't of stopped.I doubt that I would of hit her,but I still wonder what would of happened if I didn't stop.This is in off season,of course.

Isn't that great.  I have that happen many times.  Heck I even got out of my tractor and walked right twords deer running the skidding cable out, wrap it around  a tree with deer 15 yards away and walk back, they paid little attention to me I was part of the woods to them 8)

Now try to sneak around with a gun or bow and some fancy scent block and the will spot ya and run.  Been thinking about bottling Diesel fuel, two cylce smoke and saw dust mixed together for a deer attractant ;D ;D
Might be able to make a few dollars selling it. 
max

[TimberGhost]

The peacefullness and the calming effect it has on me!! But usually if I am in the woods I have a gun and am in pursuit of game. So the other thing I like about the woods is the memories made and the companionship of whoever is hunting with me!!



~TG~

[Ron Scott]

The woods provides my work area and has provided for my livelyhood and much of my recreation for the past 44 years.

[TimberGhost]

Very nice Ron, I really like that!!  ;)



~TG~

[Coon]

Now isn't that prayer the truth. :D ;D ;D

[farmerdoug]

Mother Nature

She will in time forgive all transgressions and still provides for all, even the city folk who think food appears in the supermarket.

Farmerdoug

[OneWithWood]

I derive my spiritual strength from the forest.

[maple flats]

I relax in the woods. Every time I am working or playing in the woods I am constantly looking at the surroundings amd making plans on what it needs. TSI, firewood removal, leave it as it is, cut that limb, save an old dead one for nesting/ critter homes, clear out some tangle, and so on. This all might sound like it would tire me out but to the contrary, it gives me peace.

[Medina]

Once had a fella that told me I didn't know religion because I didn't go to church, I told him to try running a saw for 14 hrs. then at sunset shutting down and paying attention, now, THAT IS church.

[sawguy21]

Once had a fella that told me I didn't know religion because I didn't go to church, I told him to try running a saw for 14 hrs. then at sunset shutting down and paying attention, now, THAT IS church.

Medina that is my feeling too. Whether being in the woods listening to the breeze and the life around me or sitting on a river bank with a fishing rod, I am at complete peace.

[farmerdoug]

Why is that people think that God is only in a church?  He created the earth and everything else so I am sure He is wherever you are so you can talk to him at any time.  I am sure He enjoys nature as much as or more than we do.

Farmerdoug

[Woodcarver]

I came here prepared to say that I what I like about the woods is sustenance; it sustains me physically, mentally and spiritually.  The prayer Ron posted makes that statement far more eloquently than I could have.

[jon12345]

Another thing about the woods I like is that it is BIG and usually no other people around to bug ya.  Yep, I like to be alone a lot of the time...which I believe is a pretty  common trait among the forestry type.  Oh yeah and the blackflies and mosquitos...I love donating my blood to nature, don't know how many lives I've saved by donating blood   :D :D :D

[mometal77]

I remember as a kid the forest always had this effect on me.  It still does.  Whether in winter,summer,fall.. the sun will peak out and you put your face up to the sun is like god touching your face with his hand..

[Flyboy]

  I feel, finally, home. Where time doesn't mean much.
I feel small, in comparision. I feel close, to creation. I feel near, to my God.
I feel free, to feel. I feel alive.
Whether walking in it, riding a skidder through it, or flyin over it.

I read somewhere: The true meaning of life is to plant shade trees under which you will never sit.