The late sky is beautiful not because it waits for those who watch it but more because it is its essence. You can not wipe out stars from the sky. You can not desaturate sunsets. The eternal is unchangeable. As well as it it impossible to create it artificially.

And one can wish to see the sunset above Mont Blanc when it is 2 post meridiem in Paris, but it does not mean one will see it. Because the Nature does not care about our desires as well as about our subjective categories such as beauty. But you must be there where the colors of a sunset are splashing through the sky. You must be there just to state that it is beautiful. Or not, if you think that it is too sweet for your taste. Because again, the Nature does not care whether we like it or not. It does not care whether we argue between each other about what is aesthetic and what isn’t.

The skies have nothing to argue about and nowhere to hurry. They are used to come on time to let us say something about or not. Because that is we who are filling what we see with our feelings and our meanings. We are the thinkers and we are the dreamers. Carl Sagan once said:

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

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