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Yum! Thanks for that delicious quote that I'll piggyback on with a toast to another man whose words miraculously bring the marvelous out of the ineffable. Brian Swimme once waxed rhapsodic on the gift of the contemplating the cosmos when he said, "You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans." Like Swimme, I thank the universe for being a radiant, numinous revelation. May we all contemplate the wonders of the unfolding creativity of the cosmos and experience it as a mystical, ecstatic, awe-inspiring event - and give not simply thanks, but gush at the audactiy of such a love affair.
― Henry David Thoreau in a letter (1856)