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The most beautiful thing you have ever seen is...?

Rocky Mountain National Park's Trail Ridge Road/Beaver Meadows, in late spring. It was a clear day with a perfect blue sky, there was still snow on the mountains, and the meadows were covered in wildflowers in every color. It was heaven on earth for me that day.
 
1) The cliche: My son when he was born.
2) My wife the first time we met
3) A clear night sky.

Now the thing with looking up in a night sky for me, is so long as I don't think about it I'm fine I can enjoy it for the beauty of it. The flip side though is if I start thinking of the scale of things I start getting depressed and feel very small and unimportant.
One of my favorite songs since I was a little girl:
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
 
The United States after spending 3 1/2 years in Germany in when I was in the military. I hated every minute I was in Europe and couldnt wait to get back here.

There truly is no place like home.
 
Canada after spending 3 1/2 years in the United States when I was in the ministry.
 
Canada after spending 3 1/2 years in the United States when I was in the ministry.


My God man! We don't need to IMPORT any ministers!

Now, if you hosers wanna REPLACE some of ours, I'm all for it...

But for the love of God, we have enough on our own!
 
The sun setting over a landscape of snow, everything frosted in white and then in gold.
 
Space scenes to me look cold and lonely, and while the images can be nice, I don't consider them beautiful.

Now the thing with looking up in a night sky for me, is so long as I don't think about it I'm fine I can enjoy it for the beauty of it. The flip side though is if I start thinking of the scale of things I start getting depressed and feel very small and unimportant.

Now, I find the grand Universe to be beautiful for exactly those reasons. So far, Earth is the only known place in the Universe to harbour life (well, here and Tau Ceti IV of coure ;)). I look at the grand scale of things out there and I think that the Universe aesthetically is beautiful - it's nature in its purest form without anything (confirmed of course :shifty:) to influence it. We're alone, but at least we're lucky to be around to appreciate its beauty from afar. Now, imagine what it would look like up close and personal - our view and our beliefs would change almost immeasurably. :)

Yes, it's very similar to how Zaphod Beeblebrox saw the Universe in the Total Perspective Vortex and subsequently declared himself the single most important being in the Universe, but I guess I'm lucky to exist at all, really. :)

Beauty for me is something more complex than a image. For example a face is beautiful because there is life behind it. That life being important to me. A gift is beautiful because it is a gift from someone who I care about, who cares about me.

So beauty is something beheld with my mind's eye, not so much with my senses.

In other words, it sounds like you admit that beauty lies in the person behind its creation - a gift, a message on paper or on the Net, even a newborn baby (the product of a very human creation). I wonder - if God does exist (something of a vaster intelligence and potency surely must exist out there) then maybe the state of the Universe itself as we see it could be seen as beautiful in the same way. :)
 
A couple of summers ago we went out west. We'd never been there before that. We hit Wyoming and ND. There were a couple of times while we were driving that we just pulled over and got out of the car to look at the beautiful mountains and all the colors. It was like a religious experience for me. I actually cried a couple of times at the beauty of it all.
 
A frosty night lit up by the moon with no other lights around. Makes everything silvery and kind of magical.
 
A frosty night lit up by the moon with no other lights around. Makes everything silvery and kind of magical.

I experienced that last August, except that the sky also had the occasional Perseid meteor. Damned Moon nearly outshone them all...
 
A rainbow. I know it sounds a little cheezy, but I love seeing a rainbow after a good thunderstorm. The colors are spectacular and breathtaking. Also, a sunset..you can always dream about the romance it brings.
 
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