For my entire life, I have lived in both the city and the backwoods boonies. Because of this, I have gained an appreciation for both. Yet, I always seem to drift back to those trees and dirt roads when life seems to need a reset. For many reasons, the untouched wilderness has this incredible power to help me make it through life's challenges. Or just let me take a breath of fresh air when I desperately need one. These are just a few of the reasons why I feel that the Wild America is the best place on earth.

Those woods have stories to tell. Now, I know that may sound like some old mountain man that's been away from society for just a bit too long, but it's true. Long before we tore most of it down for industrial districts and white picket fences, those beautiful forests was full of living things. And with those, came real Life. Real, raw, untapped beauty. Beauty many of us have never truly experienced. So when I get the chance to sleep under those stars, I can almost feel the Life that surrounds me.

Also, have you seen the stars above your local Walmart on a clear night? No? I didn't think so. But when you leave the city lights behind, the stars become center stage in the sky. Theres no point in putting in a picture here, because it would do them no justice. They are some of the most beautiful things not on this Earth, but we have some of the best seats to witness them.

There are so many reasons why the backwood beauty that is America's forests is some of the most wonderful landscape I've been able to experience. But the most important of those reasons would have to be what it does to people. It changes them. If you've ever taken someone to the middle of nowhere, tucked back in the middle of an expanse trees, than you know what I mean. There's something in those woods that overwhelms people. It shows them that there is so much to this country that they have never seen. And I feel like everyone needs to experience those unseen beauties.