The Sea of Sunset

As seen tonight, a sunset in the Sunset. My home is in the Sunset.

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"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." ~ Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind

"It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it." ~ Carl Sagan

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III. NATURE.

XIII.

THE SEA OF SUNSET.

This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western mystery!

Night after night her purple traffic
Strews the landing with opal bales;
Merchantmen poise upon horizons,
Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.

Emily Dickinson

ps. And here is a sunrise in the Sunset, in case you missed it.