Felt Quote by Ian Harding

Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense…

— Hilarie Burton

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two…

— Sam Trammell

I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.

— Borns

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

— Avey Tare

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there…

— William Gibson

“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of…

— William Cronon

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada, timber wolves, creeks, snow drifts.

— Dan Aykroyd

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

— Mark Ruffalo

I grew up in the northernmost parts of New Jersey, known more for lush forests and old farmland than industrial wastelands and fist pumping.

— Brad Leone

I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina, weird and pudgy, without too many other kids to play with. I spent…

— Emily V. Gordon

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

— Philip Caputo

I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

— Debra Granik