How to survive off the natural environment
I fantasize about living in my own little cabin out in the woods, isolated from society. Not because I'm antisocial, quite the opposite, because being surrounded by life in the middle of the forest would help me feel far more connected to the world than living in civilization does.
In this vision, most everything I need to stock my home and survive is acquired from the natural environment. Going back to the basics of my distant native ancestors is the plan, where fishing was achieved by tossing a rope with a boomerang shaped bone hook in to snag a fish when retrieved, and all necessities were ingeniously fashioned out of bones, sinew, furs, rocks, trees, and plants.
Studies have shown camping resets the body's internal clock because we respond to the blue light of the sky. By living indoors most of our time, we fall out of sync with the natural rhythms and offerings of the world. Modern societies have solved countless problems with the advent of agriculture, industrialization, and e-trade. But individuals are realizing their over-dependency on systems and infrastructure that could collapse and leave them helpless. Knowing how to be self-sufficient in and out of the civilized world is a set of lessons worth exploring. What we lack is the experience and oral tradition (passed down knowledge) to solve everyday problems with basic ingredients. Those skills have to be rediscovered, or at least collated.
