Just a little off trail in Yellowstone🌲Being in the forest always feels both freeing and familiar. When I was little, my family moved to West Virginia. Out there, the forest was a playground and sanctuary for my friends and me. Our imaginations and creativity blossomed along with the wildflowers around us. Upon returning to Los Angeles 5 years later, I adapted back to city life, but I never lost that connection to nature. When I see the reactions to nature from other people out on the trail, I'm warmly reminded we all have and want that connection. John Muir said it well: "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world." #yellowstonenationalpark #naturelovers #explorewilderness (at South Rim Upper Falls at Yellowstone National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEBNii1FEOd/?igshid=1baiujci2mr8f