Returning To What Nourishes You - May 22

Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott up here on Dartmoor just enjoying the views across the fields.

I mean it's quite a cliche to say a patchwork quilt but they really are these small fields with hedges around them that stretch out for miles all the way down to the ocean and I'm actually up on Dartmoor so I've got the contrast of the agricultural land below me and then as I look around I can see the the moorland and the hills that are still yet to be completely covered by the green of the ferns so they're right on the edge of being covered over at the moment they're still glowing a sort of greeny orangey with the old bracken from last year and today is all about new experiences or maybe more accurate to say old experiences that are seen anew ever since my pilgrimage I found myself on my daily walks taking slightly different routes as you probably know I went on a pilgrimage in March and April and before that every day I would go for a walk and every day I would take the same route I might do it in a different direction but I took the same route and I loved it I always saw something different and I always experienced something new even though the route was very very familiar but I found as I've come back from my pilgrimage that my morning walk is so much more varied I take myself up into the hills of Dartmoor and find slightly different routes often routes that I've done in the past but haven't done for quite some time and today was one of those days I allowed my feet to take me wherever they wanted to so I hadn't planned it and I hadn't really thought about where I was going to go this particular day and it just felt like my feet wanted to take me up onto a place called and it's a hill it's one of the tallest hills or highest hills near my home and I rarely climb it because it's quite steep to climb but today was the day to climb it and when I got to the top there was quite a cool breeze an easterly wind which is always a little bit cool and there was it was cloudy so it wasn't there wasn't the sunlight that sometimes I get on my my morning walks but as I got to the top of the hill what was so extraordinary was the view now here just as I'm walking now along a footpath back to home the view is really super but when you get up high and when you get up onto Butterdon suddenly the view is all around you I was able to see south down towards the ocean as I am now I was able to see east which is looking towards Exeter and the the landscape of the South Hams which is the district and area that I live in which is very rural and very green and very beautiful and also from the top I was able to look westwards down towards Plymouth and I could see what's called Plymouth Sound which is the the bay that Plymouth lies in Plymouth the city lies in and it was just an extraordinary wow moment when I got up to the top of the hill I had forgotten how how extraordinary the views are and I felt alive so alive and so free I was on my own it was so beautiful and so today is really a reminder about well two things really one is I guess it's a challenge you know my challenge to you is this why not let your feet take you for a walk and see where they take you like just just allow yourself without any real sense of where you need to go or want to go just see what happens when you allow your feet to take you for a walk see where you end up so that's one thing but the second thing as well is maybe there is somewhere that you particularly do love somewhere that you haven't been to for a while somewhere in nature that is calling you to return and if you notice that why not honour that and why not return to that space which is calling you and just allow nature to nourish you again whether you allow your feet just to take you for a walk or whether you return somewhere that you haven't been to for a while but you know is calling you to return