Born and raised in these hills. Joined the Air Force and was away for 27 years and saw the world along with what it offered. At no point did I find an area as temperate, and as beautiful at the same time. Once you come to know these mountains, you'll forever have a calling to return. Thought I could just up and leave and never miss it.... I was dead wrong.
Grizzly Country please don’t be ugly. We’re talking about home mountains. Didn’t your mama teach you ‘if you don’t have anything nice to say then say nothing 🤱🏻
I am from New Zealand and have travelled the world. The 5 weeks we spent in and around the Apalachians and surrounding states will forever be special and sacred memories.
@Max Eddieyou are right, Nobody cares! I'm reporting you for spam as this is the tenth time I've seen this BS posted on a nature documentary here on YT. Just a closing thought, real men dont have Instagram accounts, and certainly dont "hack" their sig others!? Get a life you loser!
Hundreds of hikers walk that Trail in both directions from Maine to Georgia. It has become quite the 'thing to do' over the past few years in particular. I just recently discovered my Cherokee and Mattaponi heritage. My mother's family has a farm in N Carolina and I spent my summers there from age 6 to 14 (1966-1974). They are my fondest and most cherished memories. I am working on reacquiring that land for my grandchildren because I want them to be able to have that experience. There's nothing like being out in nature...nothing. ___________________________________________________________
Good for you...hope things work out.... I now live in the house I used to spend my Summers in 66-77...two blocks from a river that holds Steelhead all year....My Son and Grandson have caught fish here .. My Father brought us up camping and fishing... traveled up and down I-5 from So.Cal to Nor. Call all my life....Same with my Son till he moved to The upper mid West.... blessings and prayers good luck... Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
It’s wonderful to consider that these are places not spoiled, never seen and completely untouched due to the remoteness of their location …. Unspeakably precious
Thank God for Patriots like you. God bless you and thank you for your face book playlist. The Juan O'Saven - Michael Flynn, Trey SmithIIhan Omar: the Hijab Slap were spot on. Haven't seen the rest of your play list.
This is a good documentary - I would love to live closer to the Appalachia Mountains. As I've grown wiser, I've learned to appreciate God's majestic creations more & pray that all people could learn to appreciate and take care of our home and all that's in it.
Truly beautiful film. But after describing the damage from indiscriminate logging, they neglect to mention strip mining, which devestates not only the forest, but even the mountains themselves.
@@prototropo absolutely. Not only does it ruin the landscape but it has polluted the waters and land, and irreversibly impacted the wildlife. Many streams won’t ever have natural populations of trout again because the waters essentially been poisoned for those fragile fish.
I was born and raised in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent many summer trips exploring the vastness of the Appalachians. The feeling of being miles from civilization among the cool crisp mountain air under the canopy of hardwoods as you tread across the rocky soil is a feeling you will never forget. I have moved for work, but didn't move too far. I know I will always want to be among the mountains and look forward to the next time I'm taking in all they have to offer. If you ever have the chance to visit the eastern United States, be sure to put the Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, and/or Great Smokey Mountains National park on your list just under all the major historic sites. And be sure to stop by the town of Cherokee, NC where people like Bushyhead have built a thriving community living by their ancestors' ways.
I was born and raised in Cherokee, I've lived there up until the past few months and I miss it dearly. There ain't another place I've seen in my recent traveling that comes close to that feeling of home and peacefulness. Late nights listening to catydids and watching fireflies to the early morning whippoorwills is something I recommend for anybody.
I really liked your presentation, the area is a total new view of these wonderful mountains. I like that there were not hordes of humans walking up and down streets with little to no care for the preservation of their surroundings. I would like to see others present the beauty of the States when I go to look at them not man made things that are used for the increase of wealth of themselves. I now an older person and would have liked to seem some of the beauty of our great country but my youth and finances have both past and so I search to see these places on UA-cam. To bad they all are not as great as your presentation.
I'm from Northern Kentucky and loved to drive to Eastern Kentucky to spend time hiking and fishing. I miss the breathtaking beauty of the Appalachian mountains and in Southern Kentucky the Daniel Boone National Forest.
I've been in love with the flora & fauna of N. Ga since 1982. I cry with the development that proceeds unchecked and rejoice at every species that finds a way to persist. Gr8 vid!
Beautiful film,thank you for presenting it. These mountains ar just like the mountains of Scandinavia,one can easily see that the Appalachian mountains once were connected with the mountains of Norway.
this doc is very moving and very thoughtful in, revealing an area that is one of my very favorite places ive ever been to. ive family in eastern Tennessee and ivr been going to those mountains since i was born. i live in Texas.
I dont think I've ever seen so many people complain about a documentary. Either people are butt hurt about the area being colonized (which was inevitable) or the music that represents the area
someone said not long ago - "the Appalachians are older than bones," and i love that. i also love that our mountains have formed and reformed several times before they became what we see today. and i love that they stretch across the sea.
i just watched 3 of your documentaries back to back and now i can't decide what my 4th one should be because i wanna see them ALL! awesome work :) this series is amazing
I live in Florida, and went to the Great Smoky Mountains for a week last year in July. I don't think I will ever forget the experience. From hiking to falls in Cherokee NC, visiting Cade's Cove and finally being at the highest point at Clingman's dome and seeing boreal forest and clouds going right through the trail and peak, yeah I will miss that place.
@@arcturus9366 it's a place that leaves footsteps on your soul and you long to be back there.....a respite from living life by the clock and the stress of living....to be back there where you breath in the fresh air and walk beside the river, watch the leaves tumble down in fall, a camp fire and toasting marshmallows, sitting by a fireplace looking out at the snow in winter while drinking hot chocolate, swimming and fishing in the summer, watching the forest come back to life in the spring...all the little wildflowers emerging from the ground....ahhhhhh yes...nothing like it....the mountains are calling me home
Unfortunately, Appalachia has been overrun with tourists over the past few years, especially since covid. Here in central WV, the places that were almost entirely used by locals are now crowded with big city hipsters. To make it worse, these out-of-staters are buying up all the property and driving property values up way higher than locals can afford.
Beautiful! Can't wait for summer for WV wilderness living. I've unearthed one of those river monsters, first time I saw it, I carried it out of the woods to get an id. Local folks had a good laugh at my expense! I put it back.
Frederick Ippolito My friend first of all, i got to agree that it is indeed a beautiful place,,;-) But to claim that this is the 'most beautiful' place on earth', is definitely an over statement to make.. because even to say so, you must have seen all corners of of this wide world .. which is whithout a doubts impossible;!!!
Don't forget the bison (yes, there were bison in the Appalachian region), deer, elk, turkeys, squirrels, chipmunks, beaver, muskrat (not actually a rat), etc.
Shit next time that bear tears up my garbage imma throw a slug in em, game warden is useless, they are just worried about keeping em out of food city's parking lot. But it is nice here Cumberland, Ky BTW in Harlan County but the pill addiction and now meth addicts is outnumbered the bears deers heck they even got the ticks n polecats beat.
@Cali Callaghan the earth, only 6000 years old? I've heard of archaeological findings, dating a bit older. And to say that the mountains didn't connect, is the same as saying that there never was a water flowing on the Saraswati River. I've heard many stories of the having been one land mass, and the rest, one huge ocean. I've seen hills covered with beautiful homes, now, washed away, into the ocean. And their history and science washed away with them. Perhaps it is best to believe, and be thankful for having heard something which promoted some thought.
@Cali Callaghan I listened to him. He uses the Bible. Why does he speak so fast? Is this his attempt to dissuade questions? He likes science. Schools allow Bible as literature, why not use them to teach science? Your basis of following the words of Dr Kent, well, he could use a few courses in real science. My god. I wonder if his scientific mind lists apples as the forbidden fruit? We're all poisoned and eternally damned. Mercy.
I'm Scotch , Irish and Cherokee, aka FuckinAwesomeTypeDNA. Even kin to Daniel Boone, why I took to the woods like a duck to water I guess.. I love my Brothers and Sisters of This World. My Woodland Friends and Some You People are okay too 😉
There is an imbalance in the way history is told. I am glad the native people are getting their say at last. With respectful dialogue everything will turn out for the best and it is good to be part of a relationship of equals. Even people who shelter behind curses and slogans will see the light or face a life on the sidelines.
Born and raised in these hills. Joined the Air Force and was away for 27 years and saw the world along with what it offered. At no point did I find an area as temperate, and as beautiful at the same time. Once you come to know these mountains, you'll forever have a calling to return. Thought I could just up and leave and never miss it.... I was dead wrong.
Hope you were able to return to where your heart calls home.
Home is where the heart is my brother.
And thank you for keeping both our homes safe!!
God Bless
Sorry to hear you wasted your life in the air force
Grizzly Country please don’t be ugly. We’re talking about home mountains.
Didn’t your mama teach you ‘if you don’t have anything nice to say then say nothing 🤱🏻
Amen.
I am from New Zealand and have travelled the world. The 5 weeks we spent in and around the Apalachians and surrounding states will forever be special and sacred memories.
I never cease to be amazed at the beauty of nature.
Can't get enough. Closer to heaven . Hard to beat.
@Max Eddieyou are right, Nobody cares! I'm reporting you for spam as this is the tenth time I've seen this BS posted on a nature documentary here on YT. Just a closing thought, real men dont have Instagram accounts, and certainly dont "hack" their sig others!? Get a life you loser!
can never get tired of these natural videos. no matter how often I see them. but nature isn't secret, it shouts, "HERE I AM. COME LOOK AND SEE!"
You are looking so beautiful
Great philosophy of brotherly love in the Cherokee system.
I'm only two hours away from the the Blue Ridge mountains..I'm so greatful to have these amazing mountains..
Hundreds of hikers walk that Trail in both directions from Maine to Georgia. It has become quite the 'thing to do' over the past few years in particular. I just recently discovered my Cherokee and Mattaponi heritage. My mother's family has a farm in N Carolina and I spent my summers there from age 6 to 14 (1966-1974). They are my fondest and most cherished memories. I am working on reacquiring that land for my grandchildren because I want them to be able to have that experience. There's nothing like being out in nature...nothing.
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Good for you...hope things work out.... I now live in the house I used to spend my Summers in 66-77...two blocks from a river that holds Steelhead all year....My Son and Grandson have caught fish here .. My Father brought us up camping and fishing... traveled up and down I-5 from So.Cal to Nor. Call all my life....Same with my Son till he moved to The upper mid West.... blessings and prayers good luck...
Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
I love country and it's people whom take stand for their landscapes and forests not ruins their country I respect kind people
It’s wonderful to consider that these are places not spoiled, never seen and completely untouched due to the remoteness of their location …. Unspeakably precious
No place in Appalacia is untouched. A few places you might sit for years unseen though.
Beautiful video and music to go with it..good old-fashioned folk music
I live and have grown up in the Appalachians and it is a wonderful place. I am part Cherokee and I thank God and I Thank God for our country.
lucky you dude...i live in sweden where just about everyone here is a fucking gradios ass hole who thinks way too much of self
You people are blessed to have a foresty world in a cleared and concrete landscape . I have faith that you will preserve this gift .
Peace leader, perhaps I'm not getting the politics of your reply to @Ulteia Sherpa, but I'm quite sure the Swiss are from Switzerland, not Sweden..
Thank God for Patriots like you. God bless you and thank you for your face book playlist. The Juan O'Saven - Michael Flynn, Trey SmithIIhan Omar: the Hijab Slap were spot on. Haven't seen the rest of your play list.
My kids are part Cherokee. My wife's grandfather was full blood Cherokee
i am from the Canadian side of the Appalachians. northern part of the mountains. the land is so beauiful .
Me to. Good ole cb
Lucky you. It must be great living there.
Sounds COLD!!
This is a good documentary - I would love to live closer to the Appalachia Mountains. As I've grown wiser, I've learned to appreciate God's majestic creations more & pray that all people could learn to appreciate and take care of our home and all that's in it.
Truly beautiful film. But after describing the damage from indiscriminate logging, they neglect to mention strip mining, which devestates not only the forest, but even the mountains themselves.
Good point. And though I appreciate the jobs coal and iron brought, the cars and pollution the left are now liabilities to us all.
@@prototropo absolutely. Not only does it ruin the landscape but it has polluted the waters and land, and irreversibly impacted the wildlife. Many streams won’t ever have natural populations of trout again because the waters essentially been poisoned for those fragile fish.
I grew up playing in strip mines, mostly abandoned. Seemed normal.
not to mention the absolutely vile practice of mountain top removal (sorry i so late to the party lol)
@@iandaniel7953 yeah but you're right
I live out West but I grew up hiking, fishing, and camping in the Appalachian Mountains. To me it has the most beautiful forests, streams, and rivers.
Love rural America...I've been 10 times...I just keep getting drawn back..
Green skyscrapers are the only ones I wanna see!
Stay safe America!
David
Have you been to Kings Canyon and Yosemite? Them 🌲
“Staying safe” is killing the whole world
Love the green skyscrapers description.
I was born and raised in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent many summer trips exploring the vastness of the Appalachians. The feeling of being miles from civilization among the cool crisp mountain air under the canopy of hardwoods as you tread across the rocky soil is a feeling you will never forget. I have moved for work, but didn't move too far. I know I will always want to be among the mountains and look forward to the next time I'm taking in all they have to offer.
If you ever have the chance to visit the eastern United States, be sure to put the Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, and/or Great Smokey Mountains National park on your list just under all the major historic sites. And be sure to stop by the town of Cherokee, NC where people like Bushyhead have built a thriving community living by their ancestors' ways.
I was born and raised in Cherokee, I've lived there up until the past few months and I miss it dearly. There ain't another place I've seen in my recent traveling that comes close to that feeling of home and peacefulness. Late nights listening to catydids and watching fireflies to the early morning whippoorwills is something I recommend for anybody.
I really liked your presentation, the area is a total new view of these wonderful mountains. I like that there were not hordes of humans walking up and down streets with little to no care for the preservation of their surroundings. I would like to see others present the beauty of the States when I go to look at them not man made things that are used for the increase of wealth of themselves. I now an older person and would have liked to seem some of the beauty of our great country but my youth and finances have both past and so I search to see these places on UA-cam. To bad they all are not as great as your presentation.
Being a geologist , nature is my first love.
Thank you for a wonderful selection of brilliant documentaries.
Beautiful, absolutely amazing.😀👍
This was a well told story about our land, thank you very much.
Nature is God & God is Nature. Thank you God for this beautiful, wonderful world we live in.
Very beautiful video; thanks !!!!
Thanks again for sharing life with enthusiasm and passion for history,always been a fan
I love my home in Ol' Appalachia
The endless uplift^ing forests
Me too I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I'm from Northern Kentucky and loved to drive to Eastern Kentucky to spend time hiking and fishing. I miss the breathtaking beauty of the Appalachian mountains and in Southern Kentucky the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Thank you!
Wonderful and beautiful video. Thank. You.
raised in the hills and hollers of Ky. Love my home.
I've been in love with the flora & fauna of N. Ga since 1982. I cry with the development that proceeds unchecked and rejoice at every species that finds a way to persist. Gr8 vid!
Youre so wonderful...
Came for the wildlife, appreciated the geography history most! Great content
Beautiful
thank you for posting - VERY informative!
I just found this one....Breathtaking!
A wonderful show of powerful lessons.
Many thanks for this diamond movie!
You have the best selection of documentaries on you tube,thanks...
+Ford Falcon thanks for your kind feedback! hope you enjoy all our films!
Beautiful film,thank you for presenting it. These mountains ar just like the mountains of Scandinavia,one can easily see that the Appalachian mountains once were connected with the mountains of Norway.
Great video about place I live and never knew !
Beautiful region with amazing wild life. I love it more when people comment they are from/living in there.
Love from far away land.
loved it, so relaxing... true arm-chair nature doco
this doc is very moving and very thoughtful in, revealing an area that is one of my very favorite places ive ever been to. ive family in eastern Tennessee and ivr been going to those mountains since i was born. i live in Texas.
Bruce Lee Paker
The mountains will always be my home. I miss it.
FishFreak 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I Love mountains too ..... ‼️
FishFreak yer right
same but theres little money to be made there ... this is why i live in hell . arizona
Beautiful docmenary
Love these Pennsylvania mountains
AThank you for pronouncing Appalachia correctly.
Great programs, and very relaxing to watch
Most beautiful documentary I have watched.
you all do great work. some people just have to complain about something just to feel alive !! great work.
I dont think I've ever seen so many people complain about a documentary. Either people are butt hurt about the area being colonized (which was inevitable) or the music that represents the area
Excellent work who ever did this!
Thank you so very much ❤
SIMPLY ONE OF THE BEST HERE,,,
thank you for pronouncing Appalachia properly!
someone said not long ago - "the Appalachians are older than bones," and i love that. i also love that our mountains have formed and reformed several times before they became what we see today. and i love that they stretch across the sea.
i just watched 3 of your documentaries back to back and now i can't decide what my 4th one should be because i wanna see them ALL! awesome work :) this series is amazing
Same here I'm way too indecisive
THANK YOU FOREST SERVICE
Another quality educational program brought to YT by the esteemed Secrets of Nature and I thank you kind sir!
Excellent video, I’ve I lived here my hole life, and I would never never move.
My beautiful mountains.
So beautiful. So proud this is Americas mountain's. Good people there too.
Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing these documentaries, i like them very much
predatorfe glad to hear it. please subscribe for more.
Thanks for sharing.
your documentaries are one of the best ived watched in youtube..
hope you'll upload more of this mind opening videos..tnx ;)
We drove through these beautiful mountains on our way down to Florida several times - a very very beautiful and spectacular part of the eastern U.S.
I'm from Florida, I would've stayed in those mountains, lol!
Our homes are in north Ga and Snowbird Nc..on the eastern band of cherokee...my husband is half. Its like heaven on earth.
I live in Florida, and went to the Great Smoky Mountains for a week last year in July. I don't think I will ever forget the experience. From hiking to falls in Cherokee NC, visiting Cade's Cove and finally being at the highest point at Clingman's dome and seeing boreal forest and clouds going right through the trail and peak, yeah I will miss that place.
@@arcturus9366 it's a place that leaves footsteps on your soul and you long to be back there.....a respite from living life by the clock and the stress of living....to be back there where you breath in the fresh air and walk beside the river, watch the leaves tumble down in fall, a camp fire and toasting marshmallows, sitting by a fireplace looking out at the snow in winter while drinking hot chocolate, swimming and fishing in the summer, watching the forest come back to life in the spring...all the little wildflowers emerging from the ground....ahhhhhh yes...nothing like it....the mountains are calling me home
Spectacular photography! Very enjoyable indeed.
Unfortunately, Appalachia has been overrun with tourists over the past few years, especially since covid.
Here in central WV, the places that were almost entirely used by locals are now crowded with big city hipsters.
To make it worse, these out-of-staters are buying up all the property and driving property values up way higher than locals can afford.
Same here in east Tn
Bro every video on this channel is great this is the bessssssst damn channel evaaaarR
That was unexpectedly good.
This documentary is whole thing about Cherokee and it's civilization and natural vegetation and wildlife. That's was marvelous 👌 video.
So cool 😎
Beautiful! Can't wait for summer for WV wilderness living. I've unearthed one of those river monsters, first time I saw it, I carried it out of the woods to get an id. Local folks had a good laugh at my expense! I put it back.
Beautiful place!
Praise God for all of His Creation
Amen.
Thank you
BEAUTIFUL !!! Most beautiful place on earth!
+Frederick Ippolito My home. :)
Frederick Ippolito My friend first of all, i got to agree that it is indeed a beautiful place,,;-) But to claim that this is the 'most beautiful' place on earth', is definitely an over statement to make.. because even to say so, you must have seen all corners of of this wide world .. which is whithout a doubts impossible;!!!
Great documentary. The music is wonderful.
I love the music; very beautiful !
The bears are truly special ❤️
Hearing this for the first time was a shock then I began to feel at peace
Beautiful music in the background at 44seconds.. nature is soo sweet.. beautiful planet earth💓
This was an amazing documentary,thank you.
Hey 🌹
Truly wonderful and their land brings peace and understanding to all.
Ahh ya...
Interesting and informative documentary.
Pipelines, subdivisions.. If I could change half my neighbors back into bears, bison, mountain lions and wolves, I would in a second!
I love the sound of that!
ImNotMad ButUR then why not do it?
Don't forget the bison (yes, there were bison in the Appalachian region), deer, elk, turkeys, squirrels, chipmunks, beaver, muskrat (not actually a rat), etc.
dont forget to change yourself too while you are at it !
Shit next time that bear tears up my garbage imma throw a slug in em, game warden is useless, they are just worried about keeping em out of food city's parking lot. But it is nice here Cumberland, Ky BTW in Harlan County but the pill addiction and now meth addicts is outnumbered the bears deers heck they even got the ticks n polecats beat.
an ode to this beautiful land
Beautiful music!
one spring I drove from D.C to Charleston Wva the blooming rhodedendrons in the mountain forests were stunning.
Wonderful marriage of traditional mountain music with videography
I love those bears!
So well Narrated .
Scotland was once attached to these mountains.
Really? There are a lot of Scottish descendants here. But this is the first time I've ever heard this mentioned.
@Cali Callaghan the earth, only 6000 years old? I've heard of archaeological findings, dating a bit older. And to say that the mountains didn't connect, is the same as saying that there never was a water flowing on the Saraswati River. I've heard many stories of the having been one land mass, and the rest, one huge ocean. I've seen hills covered with beautiful homes, now, washed away, into the ocean. And their history and science washed away with them. Perhaps it is best to believe, and be thankful for having heard something which promoted some thought.
@Cali Callaghan I listened to him. He uses the Bible. Why does he speak so fast? Is this his attempt to dissuade questions? He likes science. Schools allow Bible as literature, why not use them to teach science? Your basis of following the words of Dr Kent, well, he could use a few courses in real science. My god. I wonder if his scientific mind lists apples as the forbidden fruit? We're all poisoned and eternally damned. Mercy.
I'm Scotch , Irish and Cherokee, aka FuckinAwesomeTypeDNA. Even kin to Daniel Boone, why I took to the woods like a duck to water I guess.. I love my Brothers and Sisters of This World. My Woodland Friends and Some You People are okay too 😉
eow whata beautifull ang great place,pacefull ang lovely
Beautiful thank you 😊
very nice
I really appreciate the focus on the native Cherokees' story and history. I grew up with a white washed history, so it's refreshing.
The Cherokee came from the great lakes region, and killed off most of the native Yuchi about 250 years before my people came and ran them off.
Hey .. STFU don't speak what you know nothing about ..fucking hippie born and raised in these mountains...might makes right
@@slappy8941 True about Cherokee from up north. The written history is whitwashed for political reasons unfortunately. Truth is coming out slowly.
There is an imbalance in the way history is told. I am glad the native people are getting their say at last. With respectful dialogue everything will turn out for the best and it is good to be part of a relationship of equals. Even people who shelter behind curses and slogans will see the light or face a life on the sidelines.
Forest,worth seeing.
Breathtaking Scenery, Thanks again TSoN ;-)
Sandy Britton thanks for watching and sharing!
great Appalachian history 💓