Gestalten Stay Wild

Stay Wild is an inspiration to disconnect from the day-to-day and reconnect with the great outdoors, to experience life fully immersed in nature and celebrate truly unique moments in the wild. From lakeside cabins to orchard treehouses, yurts deep in the woods or converted circus wagons overlooking nothing but wildflower meadows, this book is a journey through Canopy & Stars’ one-of-a-kind, low-impact and secluded getaways, stopping off along the way to contemplate how and why we should all live a little more wild. We’ve all daydreamed about stepping out of our lives and moving to the country. In our heads we quit our jobs, wave goodbye to the city, and live in harmony with nature. Very few of us ever actually do it, but this book demonstrates that even small-scale explorations and brief escapes into nature can stimulate a sense of wonder that so often gets lost in our everyday life. Slow travel, though, isn’t actually about speed, it is about enjoying the journey, taking detours where you feel like it, following a river, and literally going with the flow. It’s the philosophy that travel isn’t about how much you see, but about how you connect with what you encounter, an attitude that runs through every decision you make — the opposite of the destination box-ticking mentality. Nature, so blissfully empty of the things that pressure us to rush, makes slow travel easy. Its beauty is simple, accessible, and often a lot closer than you think. Thanks to our innate evolutionary connection to nature, the benefit of time spent in and around the outdoors can be felt with little effort on our part other than the intention to make room for it. Scientific research shows that escaping the city to immerse yourself amongst the trees can reduce your blood pressure and stress levels, improve your metabolic health, and boost your immune system. At the end of the day, though, it might just be about the simplest of things like that particular deep and dreamlike sleep you have as yo