Wild Beauty

Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. 20 1.800.EXPEDITION (1.800.397.3348)

Beautiful people make even those of us who proudly consider ourselves unmoved by another's appearance dumb with admiration and fear and delight, and struck by the profound, enervating awareness of how inadequate we are, how nothing, not intelligence or education or money, can usurp or overpower or deny beauty.

—HANYA YANAGIHARA, The People In The Trees

Simply substitute landscapes for the word people in this quote, and you’ll understand the power of the places featured in this section to move us. Exploring them, we are both humbled and ennobled daily.