ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 10月21日 11時31分

Ode to Alaska by @jewel / Alaska is the last frontier. It’s a wild, vast land no fence can tame. Alps challenge the sky on the white wings of glaciers, the tips of which touch the taciturn sea in their slow migration. Bent grass tells of a bear’s quiet wandering. The songs of wolves fill the night skies. The northern lights are a spectacle beyond any psychedelic. Alaska is one of the last truly wild places, a treasure. A teacher of scale and proportion. Here you remember you are not bigger than nature. You do not control nature. Here you learn the exhale of receding tides and autumn days. The exuberant inhale of salmon rushing rivers. You learn to respect and care for Mother, and in turn you learn what it is to be cared for. Alaska raised me. Taught me what water weighs as I scram-bled from streams with a five-gallon bucket for the garden. Alaska taught me how hard it is to grow food, and how valuable it is. I learned that resilience is diversity, and the dangers of a monoculture. Biodiversity translated into diversity of thought—of adapting by being in tune with the needs of our surroundings. Alaska reminds us what it is to be wild. Nature is never neurotic, it never worries or has anxiety. If I am anxious, I know I am out of harmony with nature. Alaska is always here, reminding us how to be human.

Photo by @katieorlinsky / A sled dog team races through the Brooks Range in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, which sits entirely north of the Arctic Circle.

This text and accompanying image are from “America the Beautiful,” a new Nat Geo book, with more than 200 images from all 50 states, highlighting America’s unique natural and cultural treasures. Check out Nat Geo’s link in bio to learn more.

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