By Chet Boddy One day I spoke with an elderly woman from the Midwest who was visiting the Mendocino Coast. She told me it was the first time she had ever seen the ocean.
People have a powerful emotional response to views.
It could be our territorial imperative the need to control and defend the land around us. Or it could be that primal instinct which led our early ancestors to walk upright so they could scan the African plain for predators. We have a biological need to see and connect with our natural surroundings on a daily basis. According to some studies, exposure to bright sunlight can relieve depression. The daily and seasonal movement of the sun stimulates a small organ in our brains called the pineal body the same organ which birds and whales use to navigate during their annual migrations.