The Child - Die Stadt wird zum Alptraum (1. A formulaic but engaging murder mystery WHO SAW HER DIE? Utah Red Rocks. One of the most important aspects of my life has been the immense honor of seeing some very special areas of southern Utah with Ward Roylance, who knew and appreciated the Red Rock Country of southern Utah better than any other person on Earth. Like many of Ward's friends, we were drawn together by his visionary book The Enchanted Wilderness. This book gives an inspiring and deeply philosophical view of the artistic aspects of Red Rock Country. Ward's lifelong love affair with this region resulted in a deep geological understanding of the landscape's physical qualities, and an acute awareness of its esthetic qualities. His knowledge and appreciation of Red Rock Country came from a life dedicated to a deep rooted passionate love for southern Utah's natural esthetics, which compelled him to explore as much of it as was humanly possible during the time he was here. In addition, Ward's world travels seemed to sharpen his esthetic focus and gave him an even more intense sensitivity to the natural beauty, the . This book documents Ward’s visual awakening to the natural esthetics of Red Rock Country. Through his eyes we are given a new perspective on, and appreciation of, the . Roylance. In Nature's infinite book of secrecy. A little I can read. The ineffable, by definition, is beyond expression. What Gloria and I see from the heights of Thousand Lake Mountain and the Aquarius Plateau is, to us, ineffable. It is beyond expression, even comprehension. We look out upon a convoluted jumble of practically every landscape form imaginable - a library of earth history, a museum of nature's surreal art. There are cliffs and buttes, mountains and mesas, canyons and valleys, domes and pinnacles, rounded slopes and numberless smaller forms, all painted in a rainbow spectrum of glorious hues, sculptured into shapes- designs- patterns that astonish with strange and endless diversity. We cannot possibly do justice to those vistas in written or spoken words. We cannot even verbalize them to ourselves while looking. Language was not designed for the articulation of mystic profundities, or the conveying of emotional nuances, except in the vaguest way. How could I describe, for instance, the overwhelming impression of vastness and visual impact - the sensation of being suspended as in a motionless plane, 4,0. Or how could I describe those powerful feelings of immemorial Time engendered by the ruins before us? The inexorable cycles of change and decay these ruins manifest - the inconceivable ages of creation and destruction they represent? The hopelessness we feel about ever possessing more than the merest fragment of knowledge about ancient landscapes that preceded the ones we see: their myriad life forms, the eons of their duration, the endless complexities of geological origins, causes and effects? As we look out from Thousand Lake Mountain and the Aquarius, impressions so ethereal they cannot be captured in words glide fleetingly through our consciousness. He was speaking of the acts of Russia and not the messages of nature, but his words describe, as succinctly as a few words can, how Gloria and I regard the mysteries of the Enchanted Wilderness. Do we differ from other people in this attitude of reverential awe at nature's works in this land? Surely we do in some respects if not in all. The guide to exploring the theme parks at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, including California Adventure, hotels, parades, live shows, events, and other attractions. First off, don’t switch between red and white if a recipe calls for one or the other. Red is more tannic than white, which means it gets bitter faster as it reduces. Tree Sparina, the phase 1 of Ideal Vision Park in by Ideal Property in Bayan Lepas, Penang. This project is strategically located along Jalan Tun Dr. Awang adopting. Beyoncé Reminds Us Why the Grand Canyon Is One of America’s Best Travel Destinations. Find breaking cruise news updated daily. The latest cruise news can help you pick the right cruise using over 157,399 cruise reviews by travelers and cruise experts. This is a hypnotic place that casts a spell on those who are susceptible. Responses are all a matter of personal, temperamental idiosyncrasy. My emotional reactions and Gloria's are amazingly alike, being flavored by mysticism, resulting from an intimate, long- time, broad- range relationship with the Enchanted Wilderness not common to most people's experience. Familiarity has not brought contempt or satiation in our case. On the contrary, it has amplified our wonder and strengthened our conviction that what we perceive here in this magical land is only the slightest suggestion of what lies beneath the physical facade, indistinct but not quite hidden, waiting only for each individual to lift the veil according to personal inclination or capability.
I have seen the Enchanted Wilderness with multiple eyes: I have seen it with the wondering eyes of youth, and with older eyes that marvel still. I have beheld it as a writer struggling vainly after words; I have probed it with the camera's eye, seeking essence that eludes. I examine it as a student of earth and learn it has no counterpart. I view its mysteries with impassioned love and discover sublimity. I see it as a vision; it is before me as a dream. Here I touch the ineffable grail. What is seen and felt from every one of them lies in the realm of the inexpressible. How do you verbalize Exaltation? The awesome? Eternity before your eyes? Adjectives fail. How do you even hint at the infinite nuances of inorganic art displayed here? Man's words do not serve well as conveyors of his deepest moods, his sacred thoughts and most- felt inexpressibles. Words are pale verbalizations of emotions that swell when faced with concepts too boundless to understand. What can we do, for example, when confronted with Grand Canyon's cosmic truths? Stand mute, perhaps (that's best), and muse about its nuances of time and immensity. And how do you articulate boundless Illusion wrought on forms of endless and exotic variety by shifting perspective, moving clouds, the amplifying or muting of light, shadings so mobile they change by the moment?? Are there any natural Absolutes here that can be captured and solidified by the living eye? We study and analyze. We photograph. We visit and revisit. No place is ever the same. We see a form or design; in a moment it has changed. As Gloria says: The Enchanted Wilderness: A mysterious, changing place; Never the same,Tricking our thoughts, touching our inner beings,Probing our deeper minds; Giving rise to philosophical whisperings,Conveying elusive truths that point. To the Ineffable. Great buttress slopes, dark and somber, flow down from precipices ringing the mountain's table crest. Low mesas and Cockscomb ridge provide middleground accent and perspective. The Cockscomb is a jagged exposure of light- colored Navajo sandstone, upthrust and fractured in some remote age by the Teasdale fault. Though not too remarkable either structurally or esthetically in this region of surpassing earth forms, it is a prominent landmark. When we glimpse it from Fish Lake Pass, 2. The Cockscomb is meaningful to us as a symbol. It represents immutable reality and permanence on the one hand, unreality and illusion on the other. In miniature it typifies those qualities as they are found throughout the Plateau region. Several years ago I began photographing the Cockscomb at different times of day and seasons of the year, under varied weather and lighting conditions. Eventually I compared 2. The results were fascinating. Every picture showed a radically different Cockscomb! Which was the ? All were real, of course; and all were illusions in the sense that they never appeared the same. Viewing from any fixed point affords only a tantalizing intimation of all the mystical qualities of this strange land. Awesome and inspiring as they may be, landscapes seen in overview are only grand mosaics - or they might be likened to the collective exhibits of a great museum of art as seen from a distance. The encompassing whole is marvelous; separate elements of the grand display, however, are indistinct. In the Enchanted Wilderness, as in a museum or with a great mural, stand- back viewing should be accompanied by close inspection for ultimate appreciation. Most first time visitors to this region are overwhelmed by the landscape as a whole and by its larger, more striking features. There is far too much to assimilate at one time. Repeat visits are required - sometimes many visits before one becomes gradually aware of myriad smaller, more intricate, less obtrusive details that tend to elude the unpracticed eye. I speak from long years of experience. My argument is supported by thousands of scenic photoswhich reveal definite change (I like to think of it as positive evolution) in my choice of subject matter. For 2. 0 or 3. 0 years I was so preoccupied with macrocosmic esthetics and marvels of earth structure that I hardly glanced at the smaller but more exquisite rock art that abounds throughout the red- rock country: marvelous reliefs, or free- standing, exotic mini- sculptures, or rock textures so beautiful they bring tears to the eyes. These small- scale works of natural art have not replaced the landscape in our affections. Rather, they expand our world of appreciation enormously. Near Torrey, for example, is an expanse of chocolate- colored, multi- layered sedimentary rock known as the Moenkopi formation. The area is extremely rugged, a fact not too apparent from a distance. It is, in truth, a labyrinth of steep- walled canyons, shallow in their upper ends, dropping off rapidly in sharp ledges to gorges that are hundreds of feet deep. Here is the epitome of ruin. Broken sandstone is everywhere, but those rocks create a fairyland of erosional artistry beyond description. Gloria and I have spent hundreds of hours in that weird land, hiking along the shattered rims and ledges, marveling at the wonderful designs that never exhaust the possibilities of surface and profile sculpturing. Worlds of art are here, worlds never dreamed by human mind, fantasies created from molecules by water and wind. Some of those designs - many of them - make us cringe with delight. They are so beautiful! Seemingly so purposeful! They defy description. Or, more accurately, what defies description - what is inexpressible - is the idea of esthetic perfection behind the visible symbols cut into the rock. For many of these designs are esthetically perfect, insofar as we are qualified to judge: perfect in form, balance, and harmonious relationship between individual elements. Their spontaneous originality is breathtaking.
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