Those are not my words. Robinson Jeffers wrote them a century ago. But that's very much how I felt after driving across the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, Mojave Desert, Central Valley, and Coast Range to reach the "Continent's End" as Jeffers called it. He loved this rugged coast with off and on fog—a place where we can "unhumanize our views a little, and become confident, a s the rock and ocean ... "
Mid-photo are the two Rocky Mountain Junipers I'm following, at the base of the Laramie Mountains.
The usual view. Left arrow marks my junipers, right points to the fallen one. Note sign on left.