The Path of Life

Fredric Church--Twilight in the Wilderness

"The clearest way into the Universe 

is through a forest wilderness."

(John Muir)

So much has been made out of Church's Twilight in the Wilderness--including the anticipation of the Civil War with the blood red sky.  I like the Muir quotation coming together with Church's masterpiece, acclaimed as one of the finest 19c works.  The yellow horizon points us to an endless future--farther than the eye can see.  Even with the prediction of "wars and rumors of wars," from Jesus, what we have here is a glimpse of universal reality--at once of the inner human soul and of the soul of the universe, the pathway that lies ahead.  Google the work and see it in more clarity.