Cathedral.................................

"A Place of Worship"   Roosevelt at Glacier Point, Yosemite
May 1903

Two evenings later, Roosevelt lay high in Yosemite, on a bet of fragrant pine needles, looking up at the sky.  On all sides soared the cinnamon-colored shafts of sequoia trees.  He had the feeling that he was "lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hands of man." . . . Speaking in Sacramento, he begged Californians to preserve their "marvelous natural resources" unimpaired.  "We are not building this country of ours for a day.  It is to last through the ages."

-Edmund Morris,  Theodore Rex