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Who knows what is really leading for us? But the fact is keeping up – second winter already I've been sitting close to the stove, listening to firewood cracking and looking at the grey boundary of birches which cover all surrounding mountains.

Maybe it is the realization of our parents' dream. For example my father always told that he want to leave in a village and draw pictures retiring on a pension. That is why there were three houses bought by our family in the different parts of Russia. To tell the truth, that was the end of our family's ecological living experiment. Until now we still have one house in the one of midland villages, which is empty for many years.

Perhaps this decision was the echo of many hikings were gone in my life, many travellings during which I saw people leaving in different, sometimes difficult conditions and managing to be even more humane than those «civilized» urban kind men.

Besides these two the most widespread versions that should explain our viewpoint – sect and madness – the answer versions come to the end.

Я бы перевела так: And the first answer that comes into the mind of those asking this question is very simple: «Sect!»