"On an autumn excursion, Sigurd Olson witnessed a stirring sunset from the shore of a river . . . [I]t was all too much beauty for him to capture. [H]e wrote the next day:
'It was almost more than I could bear. It hurt me. I wanted to run away and sob. It hurts me today. Why should it - it should make me happy. Is it because I am over sensitive or that I realize that I can never attain or hold such beauty? But I must if I am not to go insane. I must capture some of that somehow - create something durable.' "
David Backes, "A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson," p. 96
Photo: Sunset at Vedauwoo Recreation Area, with Mt. Meeker and Long's Peak looming in the distance; November 3, 2012. Olson DID capture some of the spirit and beauty of the North Country in his amazing writings!
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