"The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical.Its forms are bold and suggestive. The mind is beset by light and space, the kinesthetic novelty of the aridity, high temperature, and wind. The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible. In other habitats, the rim of sky above the horizontal is... See More »
This is such a brilliant description of the eerily beautiful feeling in nature during the winter time, my favorite time to be in the wild:"Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned... See More »
The Grand Canyon. Way beyond awesome and breathtaking. ~You’re looking into the earth at 2 billion years of geological history, and seeing the north rim 10 MILES AWAY. Grand Canyon Village is 7,000 feet above sea level, and parts of the canyon are as high as almost 9,000 feet. (6)
Geyser explosion at YellowstoneNature likes to remind us now and then that she's not something to take lightly (1)
