The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. … So, on a large scale, the student and lover of nature has this advantage over people who gad up and down the world seeking some novelty or excitement: he has only to stay at home and see the procession pass. The great globe swings around to him like a revolving showcase; the change of the seasons is like the passage of strange and new countries; the zones of the earth, with all their beauties and marvels, pass one’s door and linger long in the passing.

Source: John Burrough’s America

At times nature might bump and scrape us in ways we don’t much like.