Woodland Retreat Rich in Historical Heritage, Royal Neighbours, and Anna Paulowna’s Legacy

Picture: Anna Pawlowna: Bron : Historiek

My loyal readers will know by now that I live with my wife Monique and our two kittens, Rose and Joey, and our puppy Pip in the beautiful, wooded area of princely Baarn. This is a place in the Netherlands where part of the Dutch royal family also resides. It is a picturesque, wooded area nestled between the more famous Dutch cities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. In the past, the old nobility who lived in these big cities liked to retreat here to escape the stresses of urban life. These wealthy individuals preferred to travel by horse and cart, turning a journey of thirty kilometers as the crow flies into a trip that could sometimes take days.

Do you ever take a trip to green nature?

Baarn boasts many colossal houses and castles from this affluent past, where these noblemen used to reside. Practically speaking, we are almost neighbors with Princess Beatrix, the former Queen of the Netherlands. Just one garden away lies the world-famous Soestdijk Palace. In earlier years, King William II lived here with the beautiful Russian Grand Princess Anna-Paulowna (1795-1865), whom he was allowed to marry by the Russian Tsar Nicholas because he had outwitted the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. Did you know that her father, Paul Romanov, died when this beautiful princess was six years old? His brother Alexander was part of the assassination plot.

Indeed, a great Romanov in the beautiful Baarn nature. The landscape looked very different in earlier years. Many of the forests around Baarn were planted to provide timber for building large galleys for naval battles. Nature, in my eyes, is our greatest treasure. The oxygen factory that we, as humanity, so desperately need to survive on our insanely beautiful Earth.

Do you ever worry about oxygen deprivation?

Oxygen seems to be becoming increasingly rare within our draughty circle. Listening to this beautiful Earth, which can take such good care of us, is often foreign to us as human beings. We have cultivated this world further and further according to our desires. If you pick up a history book on a beautiful sunny summer day, you can read that through the influence of you and me, and our "beloved" ancestors, much has been adapted to this beautiful planet in practical ways.

Does survival come at a price?

Currently, new insights are constantly emerging about humans and our Earth. The latest insights tell us that there were not very few people living on Earth as always thought, but that the people on Earth simply did not know of each other's existence. In many cases, "primitive people" "just" lived alongside each other. There is evidence that ancient man could pass each other without noticing. They lived in places where they could hunt well. Hunting was a way to survive. When the game became scarce in the place where they were staying at that time, they simply moved on to another spot.

Yes, that was the way of survival until a certain group discovered how to grow crops. As a result, they had to settle in a certain place to maintain these crops. These places became stopping points where more and more people settled. These people, in turn, cultivated these environments. The cultivation and development are still ongoing, because we, as humans, are driven to reproduce further and further. Why? Probably because our parents said so. So, man continued with his self-serving behavior. You know the rest: "Man adapted the earth more and more to his wishes."

Has man taken too much from the earth?

Man had to and wanted to survive according to his own ideas and had no time, and probably no insights, into what he was causing. The earth was deteriorating without these people from prehistoric times and those in the further development of time consciously noticing this. But you and I, currently? Well, the "economic powers-that-be" tell us through the best marketing messages that we must eat and live differently. The Catholic Church still believes that having children is one of the most important things in life. So, the world's population is expanding, and no one outside the Catholic Church knows why. The stock market is partly about turnover, but people mean more turnover, and rising shares.

"The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer." Healthy and "well" grown vegetables are becoming more and more expensive, and the food-producing companies based on the African mainland produce for the West. Contraceptives are also forbidden by the church there, so humanity continues to grow. Humanity continues to bend everything to its own will; it cultivates the earth according to its desires. I always learned from my parents that you must be content with what you have, but does the rest of humanity feel the same way? Survival and cultivation seem to be in our genes. We shape the earth according to our wishes, but was the earth ever meant for this? And is having children one of the most important things on our planet?

Why Human keeps Resisting to almighty Nature

We are not born to live siting at one place rather stay around in nature, run, walk, eat and gather at one place to sleep. Our existence 40 million years ago was just a monkey, they are our real ancestor. Then after four evolution (Rama Pithecas, Australopithecus, 1470 man, Homo Erectus) Homo Sapience found. They were entirely different from the true root, monkey, and gorilla. However, they had well-developed brain and had started spending life in the jungle smartly. These holy human used to pass their entire day under the shades of sun and tree. Therefore, mostly under the sun. Their activities those days were so much important in one’s human life.

Human Brains Resisting The Nature

However, today we use our most advance brain to get our own shelter packed under the four strong walls which is away from the torch of nature. The man of mid-18s started demolishing forest, cutting trees for their usage. Humankind started using wood extensively. Therefore, not planting trees, they built houses first from the woods in years ago and after few decades they converted jungles into cities. Their transition from Jungle which used to get fresh water, air, food. And, now reversed the life to polluted water, air. However, yet we still get pure sunlight.

We human destined to live under the shed of sun. However, now we have complicated our lives ourselves. We have started living our life indoors, all have started spending our time until mid-night and wake up at 9 or 10 in the morning. That considered resisting the nature functioning your body against it and which we are not born to do so. Early morning to until noon considered the most important time of our daily life. It gives strength for the day, upon spending time in this clocking one get abundant health, prosperous life and less decease.

We Polluted The Nature

Today, we drink polluted water, or we pollute it by igniting the factories and keep satisfying our extra needs. We save our time thanks to science, we have built vehicles and made our purest air dirty by blowing our carbon dioxide in the environment. Furthermore, human now adapted these things happily with thousands of unknown deceases and keeps resisting the holly nature. How long it will work? One day, we human will blow away and for that one instance is enough for the almighty nature.

Mankind thinks that they have power, tore the air flew to Moon, explored the deepest ocean and found the Mars. However, all in this race we have forgotten how to live on the planet earth.

Nature's Born Rules

All that we have to do is stay out of the house most of the time whenever it is possible, the same way that homo sapience used to do. Their life in jungle hunting for food all the day, therefore, at the evening return to home. Get to cook whatever they caught, go to sleep around 8:30 and other creatures like birds and animals are also doing the same thing. They never found dead because of any illness or caught deceased and dying. Today still we have a live proof. Most of the birds wake up around 5:30 am and go home during sun set.

We have broken the natural-born rules of mother earth and going against it, we are still fighting. It is in the form of our health but nothing else. Our intelligent brains keep laddering up in every field has stopped us even from hunting food, and it's all the events. We have been evolving varieties of food which farmers keep practising and get ready-made food for set to cook.

However, still we have different machines to process them to get the meal ready on the dining table. Therefore, from hunting to cooking, we have skipped 80% of our own job and outsourced them. Women handled cooking and men works in office (majority). In the process from hunting to cooking, the man used to go out early in the morning, get enough vitamin D from the Sun, walk on the bare foot.

On the other hand, while hunting, one has to keep ear, skin, and eyes very sharp and well functioning. Therefore, enemy could attach anytime. However, keeping himself sometimes steady without moving body, just rolling eyes to keep watch. Leaning backward and forward, sometimes upside town when handing on trees. As well as swimming in river and running like a hell when any animal chase. Upon doing these things, it triggers sharpness and all function of the body and brain to coordinate collectively.

Further, all these steps contributes health benefits with no sign of any sickness and gives long life to live. Therefore, today we live with all stressful life by skipping these steps and keep resisting the nature. All the same, today we buckled by impurities and deceases everywhere we look around. The science building our life easier but short and panic. The people on this earth born full of deceases and science help us cure and on other hand, it has been destroying the life only. It is more similar that we are cutting our throat by our knife.

Consider Sunday A Good Start

Sunday considered as the first day of the week, and it is also called as goddess day. In my understanding, it's a fun day. It has been written that the god took six days to create this whole universe and on the seventh day he took the rest. Hence, it was Saturday (Friday evening to Sat evening) the god had taken the rest and working on Saturday considered sinful. Therefore, Sunday considered the starting of the week. It should be spent outside more including quality time with your family, friends and loved ones. For example: playing cricket, football, going to city, travelling and visiting to new places. A week start with fun.

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We are paying for our comfort (acquiring this shortcut lifestyle) and also compensating for its side effects and the result is short and stressful life. It’s time to change, and it's time to seek a new beginning on this planet earth. Now we have to go back ages and think like animal or bird and start again. As today, we have gone far away that we stopped living our life like a smart human. However, we trapped in by smart lifestyle.