" 'Tis distance [that] lends enchantment to the view . . . Heaven intervenes between me and the object . . . I experience the pleasure of coming into a landscape where there is more distance and a bluish tinge in the horizon. I am not contented long with narrow valleys where all is greenness in them. I wish to see the earth translated, the green passing into blue. How this heaven intervenes and tinges our more distant prospects! The farther off the mountain which is the goal of our enterprise, the more of heaven's tint it wears. This is the chief value of distance in landscapes."
Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Parkview Mountain, viewed from Montgomery Pass, Rawah Range, CO, March 16, 2012
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