2016 Bushcraft Show slides from my main stage presentation entitled "The Value Of Using Wilderness Skills Closer To Home". In the presentation I explore the value of learning and using bushcraft skills which have proven their worth on wilderness expeditions but also have a great deal of value much closer to home.
I examine what the value of using these skills is beyond the merely practical. I go on to highlight key areas of knowledge and suggest how they can be integrated into your day-to-day outdoor life.
We live in an age where all of our needs, indoors or outdoors, can be met by gadgets and technology. Despite this – and maybe, partly as a result of this technological backdrop – bushcraft has become part of many people’s outdoor lives in recent years.
There is a wealth of wilderness bushcraft skills and traditional knowledge, all of which is valuable while travelling the wild places of our planet. Even closer to home, however, where we are not far from phones, roads, re-supply or rescue, the skills and knowledge of wilderness bushcraft are valuable, both on a practical level as well as psychological one.
You can watch the full presentation via the following link: http://paulkirtley.co.uk/2016/the-value-of-using-wilderness-skills-closer-to-home-bushcraft-show-2016-presentation/
26. “The balance of evidence indicates conclusively
that knowing and experiencing nature makes us
generally happier, healthier people.”
“Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-being”
Russel, Roly; et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2013, Vol. 38.
154. “If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous
to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not
employ two instruments where one suffices.”
–
Thomas
Aquinas