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Listen to the silence and breather far cleaner air with the subtle hint of the scent of pine trees. Actually see the night sky and all the stars. See wolf and deer tracks in my yard. Watch the pair of eagles nest in my trees. See a family of otters swim by in the lake and hear the call of the loons across the lake in the mornings and evenings. I can, and do, forage the forest right outside my door. I can pick berries and mushrooms in their time and seasons. Or maybe just sit and whittle a stick and drink a cup or two of nice tea.
These are all things I can do for free. How many of those things do you have?
I live on acreage, so I can do the same but with animals in my region. That’s besides the point.
What you’re saying is just….walking, sitting, and looking. You can do that in the city, just at different things.
I have suspicious needles and baggies on the sidewalk, disheveled people hunched over near the dollar store, graffiti covering the entrance to the subway, padlocked meat at the grocery store and BBQ meat smoke coming from makeshift tents behind the grocery store, train tracks lined with tent villages to greet visitors to the city, random yelling and exhaustless cars drifting at 3AM, far off gunshots or fireworks somewhere over there, slowly disintegrating brickwork and cement in my building, people's trash on the street Monday through Friday.
How many of those free things do you have, Mr Fresh Pine Scented Home? Hmm? I wanna know.