Where is your Yosemite?
For Henry David Thoreau it was Walden Pond. For John Muir it was Yosemite. Some people just have a special place amongst nature, be it for solitude, silence, spiritual growth, or mental refreshment, where they can get away from it all. What is your connection to nature, why do you feel that way, and where do you go to experience it? For me it is in southwest Oklahoma, generally anywhere in the Wichita Mountains. Places like Quartz Mountain or Tom Steed Lake are so otherworldly, and since the Wichitas are located in a vast, flat space of empty plains, it can get pretty quiet, so I don't have to listen to the traffic whiz by each night. Instead I get to listen to coyotes howl, or be visited by buffaloes in the middle of the night, as was the case once at the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge. It was pretty damn scary, actually, but it also made me feel alive.
I felt something special in Ireland when I was on the hill of Tara, and I love quiet open windy spaces. And I grew up near the ocean- I love a good deserted beach, preferably in autumn.