At Little Niangua Nature Cabin, our woodland bed and breakfast in Missouri, we want to help you discover the sights, sounds, textures, aromas and, maybe some tastes that nature has to offer. We will guide you to use your senses in an exploratory way and, if you choose, to study the relationships among the living and non-living parts of this Ozark ecosystem. If you wish to melt quietly into nature, we’ll offer some suggestions and leave you alone.
You can see our mindset through some of our favorite authors, including St. Benedict of Nursia, who said, “listen with the ear of your heart.” Steve Van Meter, author of “Acclimatizing and Acclimatization”, who advised, “Good teachers don’t teach, they create exciting learning environments,” and Richard Louv, who coined the term “Nature-Deficit Disorder”, and explained that, “reducing that deficit, healing the broken bond between our young and nature – is in our self-interest, not only because aesthetics or justice demands it, but also because our mental, physical, and spiritual health depends upon it,” (p. 3 of the introduction to his book, “Last Child in the Woods”).