you smite me
yosemite
Originally uploaded by la vagabond
After gaining the open summit of this first bench, feeling the natural exhilaration due to the slight -a glorious wilderness that seemed to be calling with a thousand songful voices....... Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever. I gazed and gazed and longed and admired until the dusty sheep and packs were far out of sight, made hurried notes and a sketch, though there was no need of either, for the colors and lines and expression of this divine landscape-countenance are so burned into mind and heart they surely can never grow dim.
-John Muir, "My first summer in the Sierra"