When removed away from these pressures, one comes to feel a real freedom from their peers' watchful eyes and this paranoia is able to evaporate. Another social aspect of isolation, or an action that is related to it, is the degree of isolation people choose to live in. Lately, many people are building homes outside of cities. They realize that even though one might have to work in the city, one does not have to live there with its pressures. They build homes closer to wilderness areas, or actually in wilderness locations, because of the many benefits provided by the isolation received. Some of these benefits include less noise, fewer people, less crime, less pollution and more sensory satisfaction. Even if one cannot build a home in the backcountry, some chose to visit and vacation there as often as possible, to receive these benefits just mentioned. One example of a retreat that provides these benefits is the Sundance Resort in the Provo canyon just north of Provo, Utah. It is a location that is twenty minutes from a primarily urban area, yet tucked away in a canyon behind the protection of 11,000 ft. Mt. Timpanogos. One finds themself deep in the forest with a cabin literally cradling them in the middle of the thick forest growth. It is mere minutes from "civilization," yet there is no clue, no sound, nothing that hints otherwise. All that one hears while quietly relaxing is the sound of the river that literally runs under the back deck. Submerging one's self in such isolated, serene surroundings while merely being twenty minutes from busy, urban life, is the answer to what many city workers are looking for. Another aspect of physical removal from society into nature is the mental view. Anne LaBastille's (1992) perspective on the mental benefits of nature and its beauties is one of profound insight. Speaking specifically of Adirondack Park she explains that "its greatest value to human-kind will be the healing of psychological wounds...
