You just don’t know how much I miss you.
You don’t know how I really feel inside, I feel terrible.
Not a single day passes without me thinking of you.
I know it is still a long time, but I will wait, I will stay faithful.
I have made up my mind and I will not want to do you wrong,
I should’ve known right from the beginning that you were there.
I should have known.
I hope you see this.
A must do, at least once before I die.
Sami Herder, Scandinavia
Photo: Erika LarsenCone-shaped tents called lavut provide temporary shelter for Sami herders while following the reindeer. Nils Peder Gaup, resting here on the tundra, feels most at home in the mountains. “The Sami spirit follows you,” he says.
Spirit Bear
Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia
Photo: Paul NicklenIn a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur.
“Paul Nicklen is a master at getting closer. He gets close enough to take this beautiful forest with this beautiful bear, eating a salmon, and make it all come together in a photograph that captures your imagination. I feel like I’m there. I can almost smell that forest, the bear. This is Paul’s home. This looks like a photo he took in his backyard of a dear friend.”
—Chris Johns, Editor in Chief
We are all searching for the answers
some of us find it in love which is a cover for hate
Where exactly can those answers be found?
Is it carved in a statue we call god?
Is the wise words of grey old people?
or are the answers simply blowing in the wind?
Some of us never find it
some of us question it
many of us do not realize it.
All of us still don’t know it.
Morning Fog, Adirondacks
Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic
Morning fog shrouds the surface of Bear Pond and the valleys below St. Regis Mountain.
