I have spent much time in the woods... observing, thinking, letting my mind go blank, researching, mapping, praying, enjoying....   Old Henry may have gotten it way before me:

“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”

― Henry David Thoreau