man in red beanie standing on cliff

Throughout my life I’ve been drawn forcefully to the outdoors, to forests and mountains, seacoasts and oceans - drawn by both a conscious delight in the grandeur and diversity of the planet and an unconscious spiritual yearning to be in the natural world. It is in the wild places, in the damp clean air of an ancient forest, on a heaving ocean in unpredictable winds, on a snowy summit on the top of the world, that I enter my own personal cathedral and know where I fit in the vastness of creation. - Jim Whittaker