Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

"The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes.  Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?  Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? . . . Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? . . . The sun shines to-day also."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo: Black-tipped Senecio, quartzite block, and the ridge leading to Medicine Bow Peak; Snowy Range, WY; August 19, 2012