Alaska

I spent my childhood and adolescent years in The Great Land and loved it, every minute of it. There are many and many more things I have learned from growing up in such a place. The first is to Always carry a pocket knife, to dress for the weather, and if you freeze it is your own stinking fault. I also learned that hard work is vital for survival.
While I can not say that I am a true outdoors person, one that can take off in the middle of the week with a backpack of food and clothes, matches, sleeping bag, a knife, and some rope, I can say that I have learned a little bit about the outside world. I believe that meat should have had a full life in it's natural habitat. I also thing that plants should be grown in a relatively normal way. That harvest is a family matter and that everyone works together. That the basic routines of life are a team task, and that even if the weather is bleak or it is pitch black outside, real life still goes on and you still have to work.
I also learned what beauty is simple and uninhabited. What water really tastes like. The color of true green and the stages of cold.