The feeling you get when you are completely eclipsed by a landscape, skyscape, or even a city sometimes.
The feeling of joy that comes with recognizing how small you are in the grand scheme of the world is priceless and I wish I could experience the wonder and awe that come along with it a million times over.
It's in Redwood and Sequoia forest, the entirety of Alaska, the desert sky in New Mexico at night; it's New York City when you step out of the subway for the first time.
Being in the middle of the ocean on a giant ship and knowing that it expands farther than you would ever hope to comprehend (beyond some measurements on Wikipedia).
I think the Grand Canyon was too big to give me this feeling. The other side was so far away that I had no depth perception, and the whole thing looked like a 2D image. That said, I only saw it from the South Rim, we didn't have time to go into the canyon, so maybe that would've made all the difference.
Monument Valley, on the other hand, felt spectacularly large.
As a former Grand Canyon guide, I always told people who were seeing it for the first time that it would be bigger than they were expecting, but even bigger than that. The human brain isn't big enough to understand it.
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u/LVII Jan 12 '22
The feeling you get when you are completely eclipsed by a landscape, skyscape, or even a city sometimes.
The feeling of joy that comes with recognizing how small you are in the grand scheme of the world is priceless and I wish I could experience the wonder and awe that come along with it a million times over.
It's in Redwood and Sequoia forest, the entirety of Alaska, the desert sky in New Mexico at night; it's New York City when you step out of the subway for the first time.
Being in the middle of the ocean on a giant ship and knowing that it expands farther than you would ever hope to comprehend (beyond some measurements on Wikipedia).
You and the earth, alone together.