Resources in Their Natural State: The Mantario Trail

Working our way along the Mantario trail you enter a different state.  The grueling pace of the tree, mud and stone strewn trail return your focus to the essentials... water, the body, the breath.  The world slows down to the pace of each step, and you are doing this in a space with a heady evergreen scent.

Along the trail are the elements, stone, wood, water.  In their natural state they rest in various shapes, lengths and sizes.  But yet, all these items are also resources.  In other spaces, we extract these substances and convert them into building products.  The pink granite that seems to flow over and under the light dusting of soil, as it does in the Canadian Shield, is frequently quarried into perfectly flat, shiny surfaces for flooring and kitchen counters.   The trees become endless items such as 2x4's, plywood and paper.

We sleep under the stars, immersed by the sounds of frogs and loons.  And perhaps know, in this state, these materials are home to so much more.