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Pig Island, Exuma, Bahamas
“In every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth.”
— Rachel Carson
Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Occitania, France
“My reverence almost kept me from daring to tread upon so simple yet so sublime a work.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Maui, Hawaii, United States
“No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one.”
— Mark Twain
Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Edinburgh is what Paris ought to be.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
“There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.”
— Emily Carr
Lake Tahoe, California, United States
“The lake burst upon us — a noble sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea.”
— Mark Twain
Big Sur, California, United States
“The face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.”
— Henry Miller
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
“Marseille is the meeting place of the entire world.”
— Alexandre Dumas
San Francisco, California, United States
“It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.”
— Oscar Wilde
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, United States
“There is nothing so American as our national parks.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii, United States
“The sublimest spectacle I ever witnessed.”
— Mark Twain
Palm Springs, California, United States
“You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.”
— Arnold Palmer
North Cascades National Park, Washington, United States
“The forests of the Pacific slope are the grandest on the continent.”
— John Muir
Kings Canyon National Park, California, United States
“A rival of the Yosemite.”
— John Muir
Joshua Tree National Park, California, United States
“The desert says nothing. Completely.”
— Edward Abbey
Teotihuacan Archaeological Zone, State of Mexico, Mexico
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences.”
— Octavio Paz
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does.”
— Douglas Coupland
Seattle, Washington, United States
“Every part of this earth is sacred to my people.”
— Chief Seattle
Gordes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
“The sun is so tremendous here that objects seem silhouetted in blue, red, brown, and violet.”
— Paul Cézanne
Québec City, Québec, Canada
“The impression made upon the visitor by this Gibraltar of America is at once unique and lasting.”
— Charles Dickens
Cape Kiwanda, Oregon, United States
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
— Jacques Cousteau
Neskowin Ghost Forest, Oregon, United States
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
“If Paris is the head of France, Marseille is certainly its heart.”
— Marcel Pagnol
Langley, Washington, United States
“The sea is everything.”
— Jules Verne
La Jolla, California, United States
“We have moved to La Jolla permanently — or as permanent as anything can be nowadays.”
— Raymond Chandler
Lake Washington, Washington, United States
“Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.”
— William Wordsworth
Long Lake, Michigan, United States
“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Olympic National Park, Washington, United States
“Keep close to Nature's heart and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain.”
— John Muir
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.”
— Aldo Leopold
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
“I never in all my explorations saw such a matchless scene.”
— Walter Wilcox
Lake Moraine, Alberta, Canada
“No scene has ever given me an equal impression of inspiring solitude and rugged grandeur.”
— Walter Wilcox
Little Beehive, Alberta, Canada
“Are not the mountains, waves, and skies a part of me, as I of them?”
— Lord Byron
Empire, Michigan, United States
“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tower of London, London, England
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”
— Samuel Johnson
Pompeii, Campania, Italy
“Nothing endures but change.”
— Heraclitus
Santorini, Cyclades, Greece
“The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.”
— Henry Miller
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, United States
“I have found at last the liquid, elemental beauty that I had always been searching for and never found.”
— Tennessee Williams
Garden District, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
— Tennessee Williams
California Redwoods National Park
“From them comes silence and awe.”
— John Steinbeck
Austin, Texas, United States
“There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.”
— Willie Nelson
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
“Genoa seen from the sea is one of the most beautiful things you can see in the world.”
— Guy de Maupassant
Miami, Florida, United States
“Another day, another country. Miami's like that.”
— Anthony Bourdain
Montreal, Québec, Canada
“In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to know what killed the winter”
— Leonard Cohen