The Arctic is a place that needs to be experienced, which is probably true for any place…
Words and images can only do so much, but what does vast, rugged, remote mean to you if you have not experienced frigid days hundreds of miles away from the next road, surrounded by swarms of mosquitoes, or standing on a mountain top, seeing ridges and swamps and lakes and rivers? What about the midnight sun or Northern lights. Or a herd of caribou, crossing the tundra with ease. Or musk oxen, that were once thriving in this inhospitable place…
As Emerson writes there is also something else about this place that touches, if we only take the time to experience it.
In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson