{"id":15789,"date":"2014-09-07T03:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=15789"},"modified":"2016-12-07T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T19:09:01","slug":"there-are-some-who-can-live-without-wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/09\/07\/there-are-some-who-can-live-without-wild-things\/","title":{"rendered":"There are some who can live without wild things"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Red<\/a>Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge & Wild things<\/span><\/p>\n

And some who can not.<\/p>\n

Count me as one of those people who can not live without wild things. I need the wild things as surely as I need food, one feeds my body and the other my spirit, passions and desires. I need the peace, solitude and the joy that all wild things give me to help soothe away the concerns, worries and stresses of everyday life.<\/p>\n

I am never more comfortable in my own skin than I am when I am surrounded by wild things be they mountains, streams, lakes, forests, oceans, deserts or the wild inhabitants of the land, water or sky.<\/p>\n

I am a part of the wild things even though my outsides might be adorned with the trappings of civilization my heartbeat still tells me I am wild.<\/p>\n

I hope that the wild things will always be with us and that those who currently believe they don’t need wild things will come to realize that each of us do.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

PS: I am heading out this morning to immerse myself in the wild. Please feel free to share this post.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a part of the wild things even though my outsides might be adorned with the trappings of civilization my heartbeat still tells me I am wild. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1513,223,12,608],"tags":[2654,4026,615,4094,4035,343],"class_list":["post-15789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","category-red-rock-lakes-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-aldo-leopold","tag-centennial-valley","tag-lower-lake","tag-marsh","tag-nature-photography","tag-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/red-rock-lakes-wild-things-mia-mcpherson-7464.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-46F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5192,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/06\/16\/the-morning-mist-at-red-rock-lakes-nwr\/","url_meta":{"origin":15789,"position":0},"title":"The Morning Mist at Red Rock Lakes NWR","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't have much time to post today but I wanted to share a few photos taken this week of the mists at the Lower Lake of Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana. 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