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Virtually all indigenous cultures have myths about gods and spirits living in the natural world – in rocks, mountains, glaciers, forests – as did European culture before the scientific revolution.
Chileans have a saying that they have a poet hidden under every stone, and certainly this is a place where the landscape inspires creativity, for the deserts, mountains, glaciers, forests and cliffs provide some of the world's most dramatic geography.
Guests won't mind swapping televisions and other electronics for sweeping views of the incredible Patagonian landscape with its fjords, glaciers, forests and waterfalls.
From there he took many trips into Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, inspired by his interest in glaciers and forests.
Continuing south, you arrive – eventually – in the extraordinarily beautiful Los Glaciares national park, a huge area that protects the southern ice field, dozens of glaciers, virgin forests of lenga, ñire and guindo trees.
Promises about Christmas cards, not to mention free rides on Dave's commercial airline routes, have long been forgotten, but memories of that hunk of coastline, glaciers and forests thrust into the Pacific Ocean are etched into my mental landscape.
Garriott also plans to devote time to photographing the earth, in a nod to the 60 days his father spent in 1973 making observations from space station Skylab 3. Snapping pictures of urban areas, glaciers, deserts, forests and volcanoes will show how earth has changed "within a lifetime," he says.
Within the country, one can find a diverse variety of landscapes including vineyards, volcanoes, deserts, beaches, lakes, glaciers and forests.
He loved mountains and glaciers, redwood forests, waterfalls and valleys, but he also loved oaks, and palms, and pines, perhaps first, and thus I have left my Oregon perch and set off for the South, making my way from Virginia/Kentucky through the South, to South Carolina and onto Georgia.
