True solitude is found in the wild places . . .

"True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voice becomes audible . . . In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives."

Wendell Berry

Photos: (Top) My backcountry campsite in the North Fork of Cascade Canyon; (Middle) Snow Buttercups and Marsh-Marigolds near Hurricane Pass; (Bottom) Yellow Columbines, with The Grand Teton looming in the background; All three photos were taken in Grand Teton National Park, WY on July 4-5, 2015

The Maker's radiant sight made radiant every thing He saw.

To sit and look at light-filled leaves
May let us see, or seem to see,
Far backward as through clearer eyes
To what unsighted hope believes . . .
Time when the Maker's radiant sight
Made radiant every thing He saw.
And every thing He saw was filled
With perfect joy and life and light.

Wendell Berry

Photo: Sunlight illuminating Bigtooth Maple trees covered in Spanish Moss; Redwood National Park, CA; July 29, 2014

The Maker's radiant sight made radiant every thing He saw.

"[W]hen the Maker's radiant sight

Made radiant every thing He saw,

[Then] every thing He saw was filled

With perfect joy and life and light."

Wendell Berry

Photo Subalpine Fir and evening alpenglow on Mount Adams; Mt. Rainier National Park, WA; July 29, 2013

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The mind that comes to rest is tended in ways that it cannot intend.

The mind that comes to rest is tended
In ways that it cannot intend:
Is borne, preserved, and comprehended
By what it cannot comprehend

Wendell Berry

Photo: Indian Paintbrush blooming along Jackson Lake with Mount Moran standing guard; Grand Teton National Park, WY; July 8, 2012

God's eyes are painting fields again

 

The sun's eyes are painting fields again.

 Its lashes with expert strokes

Are sweeping across the land

 A great palette of light has embraced

This earth . . .

God's eyes are painting fields again . . .

Hafiz

14th century

I am because You look at me . . .

Life eternal is nothing other than that blessed regard

with which You never cease

most lovingly to behold me . . .

With You, to behold is to give life . . .

 Feed me with Your gaze, O Lord . . .

For with You to see is to cause.

Nicholas of Cusa

15th century

To sit and look at light-filled leaves

May let us see, or seem to see . . .

Time when the Maker's radiant sight

Made radiant every thing He saw,

And every thing He saw was filled

With perfect joy and life and light.

Wendell Berry

Photo:  Feathery Mountain-mahogany seeds glow silver in last light, Lory State Park, CO, February 21, 2012

Divine Seeing Makes All Things Glow

 

                                                To sit and look at light-filled leaves
                                                May let us see, or seem to see,
                                                Far backward as through clearer eyes
                                                To what unsighted hope believes: . . .

                                                Time when the Maker's radiant sight
                                                Made radiant every thing He saw,
                                                And every thing He saw was filled
                                                With perfect joy and life and light

                                                (Wendell Berry).

Photo: Golden Cottonwood leaves glow in last light, one day after the snow.  Lory State Park, CO, November 2, 2011.