#nature-and-landscape

#nature-and-landscape

I'm most at peace at our place in Kangaroo Valley, a couple of hours south of Sydney - we have 12 acres of native Australian semi-rainforest. If I'm five hours into a day of trying to get rid of the weeds from a copse of trees, I'm pretty fucking happy, especially if my kids and my wife are helping me.

I was caught off guard one morning as I sat on the terrace of my villa at Anantara Ubud Bali Resort, set in a forested part of the island's central highlands. The time change from New York had woken me just at sunrise, and I was in my robe in the cool, still air, looking out at a lush ravine with a cup of coffee.