Moose Pasture

The expression moose pasture is a Northern Canadian expression, meaning there is nothing there, as it is only moose pasture. This site is about creativity and how wilderness is important in creating an environment where creativity has an opportunity to flow.

The vastness, the muskeg and the rolling rock of the Precambrian shield country, is like the pause between action, the time when it seems that we do nothing, yet we arise to find solutions.

Creativity can be enhanced by spending time in wilderness places, or in moose pastures where our minds can be still. These places can help to empty our minds of everyday thoughts, and allow us to get into the creative flow. Negative space, where there is nothing, is as important in our lives as it is on the artists canvas, because it allows the masterpiece, which is ourselves, to reach its fullest potential.

This site is about creativity - how to develop it, and how to think in new ways. Creativity may come from our relationship to nature, and if we look for ideas in moose pastures, the out-of-the way places where our minds can be still, ideas may flow to us. We may also find that areas that seem barren, are actually rich landscapes. The dull is now colorful.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. - Heraclitus, Philosopher

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau.

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