I’m from Florida, and since I grew up here never thought of it as beautiful, right? It’s flat, scrubby, etc. But I was away for school one year and when I came back realized just how gorgeous all that palmetto scrubland is, our beautiful beaches with the sand dunes and shorebirds, the sky, oh my God the sky here. And the variety of birds we have, and the lizards everywhere.

Mountains always I find stunning in an overwhelming way, like hit you over the head beautiful. But the gentle, diverse beauty of the natural land in Florida is so deep, so alive when you pay attention.