Swamps and mudflats offer some pretty good startup LP. Swamp has better curios but require more attention, while a mudflat offers decent starting curios that don't require much attention (if it has acre clay node go for Toy Chariot too). Try and find string on broadleaf (Birchbark tree's, the white ones with yellow tops) and you can have an instant bark boat. Caves aren't bad for glimmermoss and stalagoom if you can find one, both giving decent LP for their attention. Feather dusters and straw dolls are some good crafting curio's as well.
If you're just interested in hunting, go for the sling and use the twitch trick on a boat or behind a palisade/brick wall when you get one for quick and dirty dead animals.
Happy foraging and good luck.

Edit: Ninja'd by Nooby, forgot the Emerald Dragonfly too, they are awesome.