SUNRISE TO SUNSET
“ The morning , which is the most memorable season of the day , is the awakening hour . Then there is least somnolence in us ; and for an hour , at least , some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night . Little is to be expected of that day , if it can be called a day , to which we are not awakened by our Genius , but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor , are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within .... After a partial cessation of his sensuous life , the soul of man , or its organs rather , are reinvigorated each day , and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make ... The Vedas say , " All intelligences awake with the morning ." All poets and heroes , like Memnon , are the children of Aurora , and emit their music at sunrise .”
“ Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down . He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him . He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow . We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon , though they may be of vapor only , which were last gilded by his rays .”
Henry David Thoreau Concord , MA , ( 1817 – 1862 )
PHOTOS : DAVID STEVENSON
PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE 27