Image of the Day : Huang Shan, China

by Paulo Coelho on October 9, 2008

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marie-christine May 9, 2010 at 12:10 am

The tree of life.

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Alexandra May 25, 2009 at 7:41 am

Savage mighty nature.Always nature would be far more beautifull than any building.The creation of God must be that way.I think we can guess why one nation is different from another,maybe the soroundings influence on people behaviour.

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Petra October 10, 2008 at 6:49 am

The image of every soul

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Tania October 10, 2008 at 6:27 am

That is one beautiful picture /place ..it reminds me of Eternity ..Blessings Tania

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Savita Vega October 10, 2008 at 12:55 am

Ah, Mount HuangShan–the Yellow Mountain! I’ve never been there, but I do recall studying about it once in a Chinese history class. This is the place where Emperor HuangDi (The Yellow Emperor), went in search for the herbs from which to make the Elixer of Immortality, a goal which he sought after the whole of his life. Some say he found it; others say he slowly poisoned himself in the process of trying. (Mercury, which is highly toxic and can be fatal, was often an ingredient in such potions.) A tragic story. Or perhaps a triumphant one. Who knows?

But this picture also makes me laugh, as I once went into a garden center–when I first moved back to Texas and was trying to decide how to landscape my yard–and asked the sales associate if she knew where I might find a “Chinese pine.” I didn’t know what they were called, of course, I just had this picture in my mind, or rather in my soul’s-eye, of what I wanted. I tried to describe it to her. I said, “You know–they’re rather short, as pines go, with twisted trunks and flat tops. They grow on mountainsides and always look like they’ve been shaped by the winds.” She didn’t have a clue what I was talking about, and finally I gave up my search and decided to work with the native pines that already grew in my yard, though they didn’t give me the same feeling at all. So, when I saw this picture, I immediately thought of that.

Nature, in her many myriad forms, is indeed yet another language of the spirit, another tongue in which the soul speaks…or in which it is spoken to.

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Nancy October 9, 2008 at 11:13 pm

Oh wow! Mystical and lovely. The mountains do not look wide and jagged, but rounded and tall. It is a part of Earth which has matured and seen so much.

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Olga October 9, 2008 at 9:21 pm

Precious

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cigarra October 9, 2008 at 7:10 pm

What a beautiful Purgatory!
:)

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Jessica G. October 9, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Like a fairytale …. beuatiful and mystic.
Like life itself :-)

Love Jessica

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Christine C October 9, 2008 at 4:53 pm

If I could physically reach the peak of this view, everything would feel breathlessly wonderful. Wondering how the photographer managed what looked like a treacherous mountain to climb.

cc

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THELMA October 9, 2008 at 3:43 pm

I do not understand why people worship God on high mountains, since Ancient Times. God is everywhere. One of His qualitites is omnipresence and Eternal. The transcendental knowledge is the Way and the Truth.
LOVE,
THELMA

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nho(spain) October 9, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Always thought that any place in the world is beautiful, but really there are places more beautiful and saint that others.
The one who could turn into bird and free without ties to travel, and to travel…

Nice pic,
Hope Nazario,

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atella October 9, 2008 at 3:39 pm

serene

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Alexandra October 9, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Savage mighty nature.Always nature would be far more beautifull than any building.The creation of God must be that way.I think we can guess why one nation is different from another,maybe the soroundings influence on people behaviour.

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Italie October 9, 2008 at 2:42 pm

it’s beautiful and it speaks to my soul

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luce October 9, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Ooh I love this !!!!!
Mistyc, atmosphere, rocks, tree, water mist enveloping…the path, river…?

Luce

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