If you are used to living in the city, living in Tanarimba will be a totally different experience.
Here, you will spend more of your time outside rather than inside your house. The jungle and surrounds draw you to engage and explore the area. Even for the less adventurous, you will find that having tea at your patio, facing the greens will be more enticing than in front of the TV.
Kids will have a chance to rediscover life outside Playstation, Xbox and Facebook. They will be able to roam the streets and get to know some neighbours. They will grow up not fearing leeches and will experience the seasonal fruiting and flowering of jungle trees. They will realise that there are many other types of birds (not just the city crow), from the brightly coloured sunbirds to the mighty hornbills with loud flapping wings when in flight.
The sounds of the forest will at first be loud and mistimed, like a orchestra perpetually tuning up. Then gradually, you will recognise the rhythm of the forest and learn to appreciate the cicada's treble and the tenor of the gibbons.
You will appreciate that what living with Nature really means. Your sense of responsibility over the Earth gets boost. Sustainable living is no longer mere rhetoric.
