The eye which appreciates is just as beautiful as the thing seen.

"The lover sees in the GLANCE of his beloved the same beauty that in the sunset paints the western skies.  It is the same daimon [muse], here lurking under a human eyelid, and there under the closing eyelids of the day . . . What loving astronomer has ever fathomed the ethereal depths of the eye?"

Henry David Thoreau, 1852

Photo: Sunset at Canyonlands National Park, UT; November 23, 2012