Habitat, shelter. The first shelter is our skin. People who spend there lives outdoors are more conditioned to deal with the elements. They're thicker skinned. If you're used to staying indoors with central heating etc, camping may be an uncomfortable experience and so might going out for the night forgetting your coat because you didn't know it was a bit colder than it had been and freezing!
So here's a picture of one of my doorsteps. In this one I'm in the Swiss Alps on top of a mountain on Swiss Independence Day, having a small celebration watching the fireworks going off from all the other mountain huts. Here my shelter is a blanket purloined from our mountain hut and a fire. We'd spent all day climbing and the physical exercise kept us warm, but exertion also made us more susceptible later on when our bodies were refuelling. It's a good idea to look at how other mammals have shelter, where do deer go when it rains? Our minds contain the best shelter, in it we have the imagination to bend the natural world to protect us and that knowlege is the most reliable bricks and mortar. That and practice because our comfort level relies on our expertise.
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