Harding and Thomas Edison used to go camping, calling themselves the Vagabonds.

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"I think camp fires are one of the biggest growth areas where people want to go back to camping as it was when they were kids, " he said.

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They still go skiing, camping, biking and hiking together.

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We are now able to go fishing, boating and camping, attend concerts, visit kids and grandkids, go to movies, go shopping, walk the dogs.

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"We used to go on residential weekend camping trips or horse riding, " says Carly Hain.

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Though based on Western organisations he had seen on television, Friends of Nature was less a lobbying outfit than a club, whose members would go tree-planting, camping and chorus-singing to spread the green message through the land.

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