What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen ?

[bearfan454]

For me it was my newborn son 22 years ago. How about you guys ?

[radwriter0555]

1. The reef off Puerto Morelos, Mexico... another planet, under the sea there

at 40 feet... another world, another universe.

Utterly hypnotic.

[speckledgator]

2. There have been so many

great question! The swamp at dawn, the desert at sunset...my wife on our wedding day. Life is basically beautiful

[GCP]

3. My new born babies

Six years apart.

[LittleApple81]

20. I think that if you have children that this is going to be the answer.

It is an undescribable feeling to see your child for the first time.

[imax2268]

4. seeing ChimpCo

getting protested...that's right up there with the rest of them...

I would also have to say...the Sunrise coming up over Thailand when my ship(US NAVY)was pulling in to port...

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. My daughter

Sure, she was beautiful as a newborn (or at least very shortly thereafter), but now that she's 3, I've pretty much fallen head-over-heels in love with her. Of course, she can also be quite maddening, but that goes with the territory.

[bearfan454]

6. I have a 3 year old granddaughter. I know what you mean.

Sometimes they are too smart for their own good.

[La_Serpiente]

7. The most beautiful thing I saw????

Most beautiful thing I ever saw? Waking up the next morning after camping and feeling the morning mist all around me 6000 feet in the air on the mountain of Haleakala on the island of Maui watching dawn trickling through the trees.

The most beautiful thing I heard hmm...well...there is two...one is the song "Magnificat" arranged by Rene Clausen. Here is a link on the arranger.

http://www.cord.edu/dept/music/faculty/clausenrene.html

The second one is the song "Ave Maria" arranged for a men's choir. Arranger: Franz Biebl. However, it must only be done by the best choirs.

Here is the link of the song...however, the choir could do a better job.

http://rumkatkilise.org/bieblave.htm

[Bertha Venation]

8. do i have to limit my response to one thing?

My niece and nephews, at every moment, every time I have seen them all through their lives

My sisters' faces

My beloved every time I look at her

The Grand Canyon

The Pacific Ocean at Huntington Beach, CA, my home town

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park

and Darrin Erstad in center field at Edison Field, Anaheim, California, squeezing the third out in the ninth inning of World Series Game 7 last year!

[bearfan454]

11. heck no you don't have to limit your response at all here on DU

This is DU. You can say anything you want to as long as you don't break the rules. We are liberals here. You say anything you want to.

[The Lone Liberal]

9. You mean besides Sophia?

Then it would be Michelangelo's the statue of David, at the Accademia Gallery in Florence.

[realFedUp]

10. the late afternoon sun on the Statue of Liberty

was one of them....

[bearfan454]

13. My grandfather saw that when he came to Ellis island

from Spain. He started our family here in the USA from Spain. Damn I sure do miss him.

[peekaloo]

12. sunrise from an airplane

heading east, rising above the clouds.

[speckledgator]

15. the full moon is great as well

[Demobrat]

27. Sunset from an airplane

heading west, from inside the clouds.

[RebelOne]

14. Well, for starters, the Rocky Mountains from the air,

and on the far shore of Loc Ness in Scotland.

[speckledgator]

16. Dang

You own some kick-ass binoculars!

[librechik]

22. Driving the Million Dollar Highway just after a rainstorm

in Southern Colorado

New Double rainbow around every curve--and you drive right through them!

and of course, the new babies! :loveya:

[RebelOne]

40. Oh, and another one

When I was flying back from Mexico, we flew over a rainbow. Totally awesome. You know the song I was thinking of at that time.

[SiobhanClancy]

17. Double rainbow over the Cap of Dunloe

County Kerry,Ireland. This is,of course,second best to my own newborn child:)

[demnan]

18. A wild white pony in the middle of the night

during a full moon while camping on Assategue Island.

[booksenkatz]

19. A few...

My son's face just seconds after he was born.

Just last weekend I saw moon jellyfish for the first time, at the Toledo Zoo, and I couldn't take my eyes off them!

Sunrise seen from an airplane en route from Fiji to Hawaii.

The Rocky Mountains... quite a shocker for a gal from Texas.

I see beauty in the smallest, most mundane things. Sometimes I feel like there's something wrong with me, because I so often find myself sitting and studying something that others pass by. How many times have I heard someone say to me, "Oh, it's just a leaf/squirrel/ladybug/rock, what's the big deal?" So I don't necessarily need big, miraculous sights to see beauty, because I see it every day.

[speckledgator]

23. I once sat

and watched a spider spin a web from my car antenna to the mirror. I spent hours out there in total wonder at the intricacy of the thing.....god is in the details!

[lumpy]

38. Sunrise seen from an airplane from Tahiti to US, ahhhhhhh

Wrote a poem about that. So may beautiful things in nature. Flying over the everglades at high noon, the Alaskan aurora borealis, diamonds in a black Pacific island sky.

[bleedingheart]

21. Same here...,my newborn son and daughter!

[Dr Satan]

24. The first time I saw

Sheri Moon.

[NashVegas]

25. Rudolf Nureyev Dancing

His final tour, "RN and Friends," in the late 1980s. Even in his latter years, without all the jumps, even the slightest muscle movement was pure expression.

[LibDemAlways]

26. My beautiful daughter...My eighty year old parents....

And some incredible sights in nature...Glaciers calving at Glacier Bay in Alaska....A bald eagle swooping down over a pristine lake on the Olympic Peninsula....The Pacific Ocean sparkling in the moonlight lapping up on the beach in Maui...Turquiose water meeting white beaches in the Caribbean....El Capitan in Yosemite....The list is endless..

[VelmaD]

28. Where to start?

I was up in the Rockies and saw a complete rainbow. It made a circle in the sky. I've never seen another one like it since.

My niece's face the very first time she ever had chocolate.

My nephew laughing like a little maniac as I hold him in my arms and polka him around the house.

My best friend's little happy-to-see-me smile.

Fields of bluebonnets and buttercups on the side of the highway every Spring.

Sitting on the beach at Galveston and watching the sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico with my niece. Afterwards she sat down and draw me a picture of that sunrise to try to capture the moment for me "for always". It's in my cubicle at work where I can look at it and get away for a minute when I need to.

[rasputin1952]

29. Difficult question...

I have seen much beauty in the world, and it is difficult to pin down the 'most beautiful', (barring the mirror image of me in the AM, that is).

But for overall beauty, for me, there must be a touch of the unknown, something that adds to the 'wonder of it all'. Therefore, I would have to go with some of the Deep Space pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope. There is something wonderful about the infinite expanse of space, and the marvelous things that are out there. A glimpse of the unknown, in both harmony and collision. The birth and death of stars and galaxies are there to be seen for the first time. Such symetry, such beauty, makes one wonder what it is all about and just how we, as insignificant as we are in the universe, fit into the Grand Scheme Of Things.


:shrug:

[Cheswick2.0]

30. I have a prodigal son

Everytime I see his face it is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

[greendog]

31. A crystal island in a sea of clouds

A few years ago I rented a cabin on top of Bighorn Mountain in Boulder County, CO. This cabin had a 360 view of the foothills, the plains, and the snowcaped Rockies.

I woke up one cold autumn morning and a temperature inversion had pushed the clouds down far enough that my hilltop was now an island in a sea of clouds. The sky was the most intense blue I'd ever seen. The other mountaintops poked through the clouds creating other islands all around me. And all the trees and plants were covered with a thin layer of ice.....a crystal island in a sea of clouds.

[populistmom]

32. As far as babies, mine were all beautiful, but...

one in particular of mine was just the most beautiful baby. My middle son, who's 5 was really big (9lbs 11oz) and he just had this perfect baby complexion and great smile right from the start. They others were extremely cute, but looked more like old men than he did.

Sarah

[Cat Atomic]

33. Southern Utah, about 5AM in the summertime.

I go on kayak trips down the river every once in a while, and one time I went alone. Just before the sun came up, the sky was that blue/lavender color... like satin.

And it was completely quiet. NOTHING was moving- there wasn't even a breeze. It was like time stopped for 20 minutes or so. The water looked like glass.

Oh- and one other thing from kayaking down that river.

A couple of years before that, I took the same trip with a group of about 20 other kayakers. We'd get in our boats by about 3AM so we could travel and set up camp before things heated up (gets oppressively hot by about noon).

Anyway, I was one of the first ones in the water at 3AM, and we were heading out in a long line. I turned around to see how everyone else was doing, and all I could see was this long line of headlamps reflecting off the water, in the pitch blackness. And the stars, of course. That was gorgeous.

[scarlet_owl]

34. When I saw the ocean for the first time.

It was last February on South Padre Island, TX. I was on a bird watching and nature hiking vacation and we were staying with my step-grandparents in their condominium. It was so unbelievably beautiful!

[rppper]

35. kanehoe bay, coming through the tunnel on the...

...highway...h1 i think...at dusk....the mountains rising up 2000 feet above us, kanehoe bay a thousand feet below us, sunset shimmering off the water, the green of the vegetation on the slopes bathed in an orange glow, the curves of the highway as it snaked down to the bay.....i felt very small after seeing it...

[eauclaireliberal]

36. My wife

Her, and Lake Superior.

[Corgigal]

37. When my little red headed daughter was 8

I saw her walk onto her classroom stage and go all out for a school talent show. I couldn't do anything close to that at her age.

[Barad Simith]

39. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings...

...at Seattle's Moore Theater on October 11th. This is no exaggeration on my part. I've never in my life experienced anything as beautiful as that performance. Their recordings can't do justice to the talent they exhibit onstage.

[jus_the_facts]

41. Sunsets on the beach in Florida......

.....beautiful and breathtaking....wasn't my first thought tho......can't tell ya about THAT beautiful sight *heart fluttering sigh* :evilgrin:

[booksenkatz]

42. Thanks, bearfan454, I'm going to save this thread

There's alot of beauty here that is a wonderful antidote when you've had too much ugliness from the Bush crew. But every single thing we've listed here is in danger right now; there are so many things left to try to save. And they are worth saving, they are worth staying and fighting for.

Thanks.
:hi:

[ForrestGump]

43. Thanks. I can't

pick just one, and that has reminded me that I have seen many beautiful things. I've seen things -mainly natural, but some human - that have just stunned me with their innate beauty. And I'm just getting started - plenty more ahead.

A good thing to remember during those times when things don't seem so wonderful.

[psychopomp]

44. Sunset over tall, breaking waves in Monterey, CA

or, the wraparound 340+ degree sunset from high on a craggy rock in the Mohave desert

:wow: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :loveya:

edit: more smileys

[kodi]

45. sunset pt reyes lighthouse & whales spouting off-shore in the pacific

words cannot describe it.