Friday, July 17, 2015

A thing is beautiful when it has a cosmic quality . . .


"The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality, or a power to suggest relation to the whole world and so lift the object out of a pitiful individuality. Every natural feature - sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical tone - has in it something which is not private but universal, . . . and is therefore beautiful . . . The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of every thing into every other thing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 




Photos: (Top) Paintbrush and The Grand Teton; (Middle) Marsh-Marigolds, The Grand and Middle Tetons; (Bottom) Mist near my backcountry campsite. All three photos were taken in Grand Teton National Park, WY, on July 4-6, 2015


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