Question of the Week: What’s your favorite place out in the environment?
2009 June 8
Relaxing in your backyard. Hiking in a national park. Birding in a wetland. We all have a favorite place where we go to connect with nature. June is Great Outdoors Month.
What’s your favorite place out in the environment?
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beach is awesome
beach is beautiful
I too have a small farm that is pasture & woodlot with a small stream.
But the sheep have been replaced with Scottish Highland Cattle.
On the beaches of Dauphin Island off the Gulf Coast of Alabama.
Maritime forest
Really a fantastic memory. One day i’ll surf in the beaches of Florida and feel like you felt when you were younger. I’m from Brazil and here we have marvelous landscapes that i will have to spend one entire life visiting. That is great.
I enjoy biking and or walking threw Prince William National Forest.
Why make the overcrowding worse by adding my presence? I stay home to watch the documentaries and travelogues.
My House.
My cabin and tree farm in northern Minnesota.
Wading the flats of Tampa Bay and pulling on trout faces.
Chimney Pond in Baxter State Park in Maine.
Mountain overlook in Great Pond Mountain Conservancy Trust Wildlands in Maine.
By my frog-filled pond surrounded by forest, my home in Maine.
I love wide open spaces with low vegetation, allowing me to see far distances and enjoy sunsets and sunrises. Growing up in central Illinois on a farm greatly influenced this. Gliding on the water of northern Lake Superior around Isle Royale is also a favorite spot of mine.
by the ocean. and blueberry hill in maine
On top of a mountain in NH…preferably one with a rocky summit (great for lunching on) on a bright clear day when you can see clear to Canada. Hopefully, the white throated sparrow is singing “Old Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody”, and the Clintonia is blooming.
The ocean, any clean ocean or sea. Stay in a hut in the brush. Then when you decide to really breathe, go out on a small sailing vessel or catamaran with living quarters. Kayak.
I also have a passion for larger rivers and tributaries. A canoe trip for a few days, pitch a tent.
With nature, become alive again. Bring a friend, have beautiful memories.
Thanks for the question. It was like creating a banquet for one’s being.
I notice you stipulated “any clean ocean or sea” – not so easy to find these days.
i like the indoors because there is air conditioning, food, and no animal feces.
My favorite place is in the shadow of our nuclear power plant. I can just look at it and imagine all the electrons rushing out to power water treatment plants, respirators at the hospitals, provide heat for nursing homes and etc. All the while emitting no CO2. I wonder why Obama wont build more plants with the one trilliion dollar stimulus?
The desert, the desert, the desert, I loooove the desert.
Anywhere outdoor in the Great USA: East and West Coast beaches, the Great Plains, Smokies, Rockies, swamps. Take it in. Climb a Colorado 14er and watch the sunrise over this huge, beautiful expanse of land and water.
My favorite place in nature is watching the Spring in the night near the mountains, flowers, trees.
There is a peace and serenity I feel as I watch the water, And there’s nothing quite like a beautiful mountain.
Cool, early morning hillside in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, overlooking a tallgrass vale commingled with a few oak stands and fir; maybe with wisps of ground fog lazing between the trees…
Or laying on a bedroll, in the West Texas Davis Mountains, watching the moonrise with too many stars to count…
Or maybe looking westward across a pristine lake in the Boundary Waters, the sun barely above the trees, with the only disturbance on the lake, the waves from a loon gliding across
Hmm…you must be one of those cock-eyed optimists. I work literally on Death Valley’s edge…and now that the 100+ degrees of summer have started, it’s all I can do to restrain myself from jumping in front of one of the many trains that pass through Barstow to end the climatological misery, hah-hah!
Though an ex- and I did stay in DV for New Year’s Eve awhile back, it WAS nice…but then, it never got
over 75. To each their own.
June is a great time to spend it hiking back in Western Montana. Before the all the tourist arrive.
Remember one can be a traveler, without being a tourist.
I LOVE 2 go down to the creek near my house and it has a very small waterfall and u cant go swimming but it is so beautiful and has rocks plus next to the creek is wonderful trails if u follow them far enough u will come to this old abandon shed or house a tree has fallen on it so u cant enter but if i had the chance i would. Saddly are wonderful creek and trails will be ruiend because this man wants to plant trees and use the creek water to water them but he needs to relize is it isn’t a ocean. And it cant supply water 4 over 1,000 trees. Help protect are little creek. <3
My favorite place in the world is a forest w/hills in SE Oklahoma, the Ouachita Mountains. We have a little cabin in the forest, and it is so peaceful, you can sometimes hear a pin drop. We see different birds, wasps, bugs, lizards, spiders, and hear all sorts of music created by the animals. We are so lucky to participate in nature’s celebration!
Locally (SF area), I really like the ocean shore and sunsets.
That’s part of why I live about 200 feet from the Pacific Ocean. However, Golden Gate Park has some great treed areas to hike through (and you can get back to civilization by walking 1-2 blocks from any location).
2nd Place – Oregon (near Mill City/Salem) has forest, river, ocean and mountains all in one package! Very relaxed. Oregon/northern California is very similar.
Thanks,
Richard
My personal favorite is Tinos in Greece , part of the northern cycladic islands in the Aegean sea, besides typical greek garbage dumping (on the side of the road) the water is pristine and the air is pure as can be!
I’d be happy to rent or sell you my house.
regards
Ted
Being surrounded by beautiful trees in a forrest has always been my most favorite place to be. However I also have the most amazing at peace feeling when kayaking on Lake Tahoe which is along the border of California and Nevada. The water is stunningly clear and the mountains are magnificent. Check out this picture I found and see what I mean http://www.inflatablekayakworld.com/blog/why-the-inflatable-kayak-is-the-perfect-ride/
(p.s. that is not me – just a pic I came across).
One of my favorite places to visit in Southern Switzerland is Lugano. Pristine lakes, surrounded by mountains with breathtaking views. Best time to go is between March and October for the Mediterranean climate.
The unspoiled natural beauty is evident with the lack of pollution. Will definitely recommend you guys check it out.
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Go boating and fishing in Flaming Gorge Reservoir..i’d be very happy to catch a rainbow trout and the landscape is breathtaking.
Indeed Lake Tahoe is great for using an inflatable kayak especially when the sun is hot and the water is still…. heaven!!
Very informative. Thanks for sharing.
Nothing more relaxing then the ocean.
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The island of St Johns. The beach is Trunk Bay. An amazing place. The next beach over, cinnamon bay, has an archaeological barn and underwater reef trail.