Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
In plain words
Beauty is being made all around, all the time, more than anyone can take in.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), Chapter I journal entry — grepped verbatim in the staged Gutenberg text (id 32540).
- My First Summer in the Sierra
- 1911 · 1869 Sierra journal entry, published 1911.
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