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"Celebrities' Favorite Natural Landscapes\nRobert Redford, Julia Roberts, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, and Ben Stiller share their favorite wild settings\nAt the Cinema Society debut of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller, who directed and starred in the film, extolled the natural beauty of Iceland, where he shot a number of eye-catching scenes. \"Iceland is incredible,\" he said. \"It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. And the landscapes are so diverse\u2014the glaciers; the black sand beaches; green, treeless mountains. It is very cinematic.\"\nKristen Wiig, Stiller's co-star, also mentioned Iceland. \"I would love to go back,\" she said. \"We went on a waterslide one night. I don't really know if it was technically open, and we got stuck because there wasn't a lot of water.\"\nAlso at the screening of Mitty, actor Richard Kind gave a nod to Bellingham, Washington. \"I'm telling you,\" said Kind, \"It's the most beautiful place!\"\nOn his way into Mitty, artist Jeff Koons spoke of Versailles. \"It's very controlled nature\u2014but beautifully controlled,\" he said. \"My wife and I also love to go to Iceland. We even brought home some of the natural landscape\u2014we brought their horses back to our farm in Pennsylvania.\"\n\nKoons is seen here with his wife, Justine Wheeler.\nJulia Roberts gave an Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County, shot amid the prairies of Oklahoma. But in real life, she prefers New Mexico, where she escapes to an idyllic ranch in Taos County. \"Any sort of natural landscape in New Mexico,\" she touted on the red carpet at the movie's premiere. \"It's all so beautiful, it really is amazing\u2014all of it, almost always.\"\nRobert Redford, the star of All Is Lost, is almost as well-known for his conservation efforts as he is for his acting. At the Film Critics Circle Awards, he told AD, \"Let's start with the ocean. The ocean is the most unexplored part of our planet. And there is a lot of danger to it. If we don't start paying attention to the dangers of what's left of our planet, we won't have one.\"\nAt the Cinema Society debut of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Orlando Bloom, who played the elf Legolas in the film, as well as in the Lord of the Rings series, recalled the primordial landscapes where both were shot. \"The countryside in Wellington, New Zealand, has a really special place in my heart,\" he said. \"I'm also English, and the countryside in Kent evokes a lot of memories and happy thoughts.\"\n\nPictured here is the countryside in New Zealand.\nFashion designer Chris Benz, attending The Hobbit, reminisced on growing up in the Pacific Northwest. \"At the time, I didn't appreciate it because it was home. But now when I go back, it is the most beautiful place. I'm from Bainbridge Island. It's the same size as Manhattan, but it's covered in evergreen trees. And everyone's waterskiing and horseback riding.\"\nActor Patrick Wilson, also at The Hobbit, pointed out that he'd visited New Zealand. \"New Zealand is one of those places where you feel the earth is still working\u2014from the little ferns to the mud pools, to Rotorua, where the whole town smells like sulfur because the ground is sort of erupting.\"\nAt The Hobbit, author Jill Kargman, who grew up in Manhattan, insisted that she prefers life indoors. Meanwhile, her husband, business guru Harry Kargman mentioned that he was wowed by the Galapagos Islands. \"I saw an eagle ray with a ten-foot wingspan,\" he said. \"Thirty feet underneath us was a whole school of hammerhead sharks. We also hiked up from the bottom of this volcanic island, and there were these huge land tortoises. They must have weighed 500 pounds.\"\nOn the red carpet at the Emmy Awards, Girls star Zosia Mamet described a more bucolic landscape. \"My family has a house in Vermont,\" she said. \"It is very picturesque. I read a lot of books, ride horses, and stare at the scenery there.\"\nWalking the red carpet at the premiere of her film The Way, Way Back, Allison Janney extolled the surroundings in Maine. \"My family has a house up in Edgecomb, Boothbay Harbor,\" she said. \"That's pretty beautiful!\"\nThe History Channel miniseries Hatfields &amp;amp; McCoys wasn't shot in West Virginia, where the events portrayed took place, but rather in Romania. \"The wilds of Romania\u2014there is nothing like them in the world,\" noted actress Jena Malone during a party for the cast at the Soho House in Los Angeles. \"I took two weeks and drove around in a rental car with my boyfriend. There were women in horse-drawn carriages and traditional garb. I highly recommend it. Bra\u0219ov is really beautiful.\"\n\nMalone is seen here at The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere. Also pictured is Bra\u0219ov, Romania.\nDuring a BAFTA tea at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, Benedict Cumberbatch, who played his part in August: Osage County masterfully, suggested the countryside in his native Great Britain. \"I love Britain in autumn,\" he said. His favorite things about it? \"A warm pub and the smell of wood smoke as you're walking home at dusk.\"\nActress Rose Byrne, at a DKNY charity auction, remarked that she'd visited Rhinecliff in upstate New York. \"That was a really gorgeous country area,\" she offered. \"We rented out a lovely house with friends.\"\nMusician David Crosby, attending a Hugo Boss event, indicated that he shares his favorite views with pals on his boat. \"Usually when I get done working, I take out an old wooden schooner I have and sail in the ocean near Santa Barbara,\" he said. \"But I have sailed it all over the world. Mostly with friends.\"\n\nCrosby is seen here with his wife, Jan Dance.\nAlso at the Hugo Boss f\u00EAte, actress Blythe Danner endorsed \"walking along the ocean on the East Coast in the fall. There is a certain light,\" she said, \"that I don't think any other time has.\"\n\nDanner is seen here at a Film Society of Lincoln Center gala.\n\"I loved the open spaces outside Dublin that I got to see,\" rocker Pete Wentz reflected before taking the stage at the Z100 Jingle Ball. Wentz is seen here at the Wreck-It Ralph premiere.\n\"What a great question,\" replied actor Alan Arkin at the Ziegfeld Theatre for the premiere of his film Grudge Match. His great answer? \"[Hawaii's] N\u0101 Pali coast, Margaree Harbor in Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island, the mountain at Telluride, and up on Sugarloaf in Rio, Brazil.\"\n\nPictured here is the N\u0101 Pali Coast in Hawaii.\nComedian Kevin Hart, also at Grudge Match, noted that he and his girlfriend had visited Fiji. \"I took up surfing,\" Hart told AD. \"Not only is Fiji breathtakingly beautiful, but we were blown away by the culture and the people.\"\nActress Jacki Weaver, at an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts event in Los Angeles, gave a nod to her homeland. \"I'm very fond of a beach called Tamarama,\" she said. \"It's around the corner from Bondi, which you've probably heard of, but, oh, so beautiful.\"\nAt the debut of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, producer Judd Apatow championed the big Island of Hawaii. \"I like Kona. We go there on vacation,\" he said. \"And I also like West Covina [a small town east of Los Angeles].\"\n\nApatow is seen here at the Emmy Awards. Also pictured is the coastline in Kona, Hawaii.\nActor Fred Willard, at Anchorman 2, lauded the landscapes in Northern California, near Carmel. \"We drive up to go through the woods and look at the ocean.\"\nToday's Hoda Kotb, also at the debut of Anchorman 2, told AD that the Maldives were the most beautiful place she'd ever been. \"More so than the Caribbean,\" she pointed out. \"I've never been on water that color blue.\"\n\nKotb is seen here at Glamour's Women of the Year Awards.\nOn his way into the National Board of Review Awards at Cipriani, The Wolf of Wall Street star Jonah Hill opined that his favorite place in nature is Down Under. \"If I ever have time off, I like Bondi Beach in Australia,\" he said. \"It's the most beautiful place I've ever been.\"\nAlso at the National Board of Review Awards, Gravity producer David Heyman praised a nature preserve in Ipioca, Brazil, that he had visited while on holiday. \"There is a hotel there that is in the style of a Portuguese colonial farm, and you see pockets of rain forest.\" Another view that impresses him? \"When you look down from space,\" Heyman marveled, \"there are no borders\u2014it's just one beautiful landscape.\"\nNebraska star Will Forte spoke of the movie's namesake state at the National Board of Review Awards. \"I did find it very beautiful,\" he said. \"The time of year we were there, I believe there were cornhusk bails in the fields. The light would hit them and cast these deep shadows. I expected it to be more like the number-five freeway from L.A. to San Francisco, with these kind of monotonous fields, but there was much more to it.\"\nActor Bruce Dern\u2014his hair just as wonderfully fluffy and messy at the National Board of Review Awards as it was in Nebraska\u2014remarked how beautiful he found the state. \"I've been through it a few times,\" said Dern. \"One of the big fights that [director] Alexander Payne had was about making the film in black-and-white. And Nebraska is kind of black-and-white, but there is also something out there you don't find a lot of other places, and that is a sense of fairness. The people are fair, and they're honest. And they don't leave.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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