Well hello people ,
This as you can see this is my first post, I have however, been reading the posts for a long while. Until now I have not been tempted to enter. Mainly I think, because of this very subject. I have been thinking about a thread entitled "Is this the place for me?" Hope fully this will not be my last post!!
It has been an interesting thread but a little one sided . Withsome great stuff for starting urban myths.
For me nature is about COLOUR, as I look out of my window a field of orange hawkweed , Yellow poppies and purple saxafrage fill my view, along with every other colour somewhere there as well.
I go out into the world wearing what ever comes out on top of my clothes pile it may be purple , orange, blue ,pink grey , green,light blue, black ,red etc (yes I do have clothes all of those colours). but never DPM . I have a military background so when I travel and live in the field, I use quick a lot of green kit and until I replace it I have a dpm shelter sheet. But like much of my kit it came free! So what can you do? I have been wearing an orange ventile jacket for the last 30 years and am about to make a new one as it is just about see though . and yes it is orange, because I was given the material.
I have never had any trouble observing or hunting wild life whilst wearing it. I find that it is the way you move that makes the difference, not what you are wearing .
I do like natural fibres and do not own a gortex jacket.
It makes absolutly no difference to me what you are wearing when you go to play in the woods only that you are having a good time .
I would not be bothered if I met some burburry clad folk around a fire in the woods as long as they where not trying to burn it down! I would however be unhappy if I was confronted by a horde of airsoft plonkers . As our local wood was devasted by some not so long ago. While I am in rant mode, My only real problem countryside users are 4x4s making tracks un walkable and quads and moterbikes doing the same but with lots of noise pollution. Rant over.
Back to the subject, I have been luck enough to travel all over the world and met and interacted with many ethic people .. One thing which has alway struck me is that they nearly all try to add colour to their dress in some way . be it beading , paint weaving . So perhaps following their example might be the way forward as in my experience it does not stop them getting close to nature!
I await your reaction and then perhapsI will know if this is the place for me
So good night for now,
Swamp donkey