The alpenglow is the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God!

 

"The sun is setting . . . The range is baptized in the divine light of the alpenglow, and its rocks and trees are transfigured . . . The alpenglow is the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God . . . Stay on the good fire-mountain and spend the night among the stars. Watch their glorious bloom until dawn, and get one more baptism of light. Then, with fresh heart, go down to your work, and whatever your fate, under whatever ignorance or knowledge you may afterward chance to suffer, you will remember these fine, wild views and look back with joy to your wanderings . . . "

The Contemplative John Muir

Photo: A ragged Subalpine Fir is silhouetted against a windswept Long's Peak radiant with alpenglow; Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; January 27, 2014

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