Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.