Today was our first full day at Yellowstone National Park,
which was the first established national park in the United States and the
world. It is crazy to think people have been enjoying and adventuring this park
for 142 years, but it didn’t just start there.
For years, trappers, hunters, and explorers had been coming out of
Yellowstone telling tales of spouting water, stone forests, glass mountains,
and boiling lakes, but they were just ignored as rumors. Imagine seeing this
vast beauty and no one believing you that it was here. It finally took three
prospectors and 36 days of exploring to confirm all the wild tales. They tried
and tried to get their findings submitted into a magazine, but these three men
were ignored as well. Editors thought the account was so fantastic it couldn’t
be true. This reminds me of a quote I saw whole visiting Gator at Cornerstone;
“The greatest barrier to the molecules to mans idea is that science has never
discovered anything truly simple” –Dean Ohlam. It is awe inspiring that we are
here today seeing these natural beauties. When we go home we are going to talk
and tell tales about the wonders we have seen to our family and friends are not
going to understand. These stories we will share with others will not be
enjoyed as much as we will enjoy them with each other.
“And there at the camp we had
around us the elemental world of water and light, and earth and air. We felt
the presence of the wild creatures, the river, the trees, the stars. Though we
had troubles, we had them in true perspective. The universe as we could see any
night, is unimaginably large, and mostly dark. We know we needed to be together
more than we needed to be apart”
-Wendell Berry
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