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Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#1: Oct 31st 2011 at 7:38:32 PM

Because I'm curious.

edited 31st Oct '11 7:39:10 PM by Ekuran

Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
Proud Canadian
#2: Oct 31st 2011 at 7:38:57 PM

inb4 Your Mom

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tendollarlameo Remarkably Unremarkable Since: Aug, 2010
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#3: Oct 31st 2011 at 7:39:57 PM

My boyfriend. More specifically, his eyes and smile.

Enthryn (they/them) Since: Nov, 2010
(they/them)
#4: Oct 31st 2011 at 9:36:37 PM

I can't name one single thing as the most beautiful, so I'll describe something that's at least up there.

A couple summers ago, I went on several day hikes with my family over the course of a few days in Rocky Mountain National Park. The best trail we hiked was one that wound across the alpine tundra at around eleven to twelve thousand feet above sea level. The whole trail was stunningly beautiful, but the most amazing sight was at the end of the day.

Late in the afternoon, having already finished the main trail, we hiked up a short path through a bunch of heavily weathered boulders, ending at a rock formation perhaps twenty feet high. I climbed to the top, and saw a sight that really showed the sheer scope of it all: For dozens, maybe even hundreds of miles in every direction, a clear view of the vast, snow-covered peaks, sunlit in patches through the clouds.

The other things I've seen that are comparable are all from the Rocky Mountains, too: the peaceful silence of an aspen forest in summer; a stream running down the side of a mountain, the banks covered with wildflowers in full bloom; a still, clear lake in the middle of pine-covered mountains (Mills Lake, for the curious — though pictures really don't do it justice).

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Away
#5: Oct 31st 2011 at 9:50:51 PM

Hmm, I can't cite a specific example, but acts of simple human kindness are truly beautiful to me.

/cheesy

If we're going more aesthetic, I'm a firmly coastal-girl. Nothing will ever outstrip the ocean for me. I'm particularly biased toward the North Atlantic. Particularly early mornings, when there's still mist hanging in the air.

Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
Oh My
#6: Oct 31st 2011 at 9:54:38 PM

My father surfing.

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BlixtySlycat |like a boss| from Driving the Rad Hazard Since: Aug, 2011
|like a boss|
#7: Oct 31st 2011 at 9:55:50 PM

When I was seven years old, I was hiking with some family and we stumbled across an isolated mini-lake in the mountains.

That lake, I'd have to say. If not the most, than it's up there.

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InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#9: Oct 31st 2011 at 10:33:45 PM

The night sky in a desert; sunset on the Serengeti; a forest from the top of a hill in its midst, a pristine, shiny red toadstool; an amazingly intricate piece of lichen growing on a wall; cumulus from in among their number on a sunny day; snow; a variety of naked women.

The world in general, really.

edited 31st Oct '11 10:35:51 PM by InverurieJones

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Sporkaganza I'm glasses. Since: May, 2009
I'm glasses.
#10: Nov 1st 2011 at 12:18:35 AM

[up][up]

...

:l

for real?

really?

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ThatHuman someone from someplace Since: Jun, 2010
someone
#11: Nov 1st 2011 at 12:46:55 AM

Pictures of nebulae, maybe.

something
BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#12: Nov 1st 2011 at 2:12:17 AM

Since I was a child, I've been told that the region I live in is beautiful because of the way our nature is preserved and the unique characteristics of it, mostly caused by the ice age. In my late teens, I began noticing that the people telling me so were right. here's a nice little picture from near where I grew up.

It's not the most beautiful thing I've seen, but it's the third thing that sprang to mind. The second was my girlfriend, but that doesn't mean anything to you, whereas the landscape I linked might please you. (It might not be among the most amazing landscapes of Finland, but then again, most of the art that came to define pre-independence Finnish culture was inspired by that very region.)

(Here's the same place in the winter.)

Now, the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw the title of the thread was this.

(See also this.)

edited 1st Nov '11 2:13:58 AM by BestOf

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AngryScientist Nostalgia from Russia with Love Since: Nov, 2009
Nostalgia
#13: Nov 1st 2011 at 4:13:33 AM

My ex-girlfriend.

Sharysa Since: Jan, 2001
#14: Nov 1st 2011 at 2:58:06 PM

My city's beach at sunset. No lie, that really is how it looks unless it's winter. All those reds and oranges punching through dark gray clouds.

Being in California, the bar is set pretty high for me, but I find most other sunsets to be rather boring and flat.

Glaciers are also gorgeous.

annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
watching down on us
#15: Nov 1st 2011 at 3:04:28 PM

I have never seen and never will I see again such beauty in my life. I carry on my menial everyday tasks with discontent knowing that the day I watched this video I reached the peak of my life, everything else now seems like shrouded furniture, a perhaps comfortable anesthesia overwhelming me as the realization that my life can only go downhill from now on sets in.

My eyes are filled with tears. Thank you for this gift.

This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

Riveting.

Simply riveting.

golfclap

I.... I understand now... I understand EVERYTHING. It's all so clear!

There's no description available because there are just no words to describe its majesty.

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#16: Nov 1st 2011 at 3:10:16 PM

[up][up]Now, that's a sunset.[awesome]

(Sunsets here aren't generally anywhere near as awesome as that.)

edited 1st Nov '11 3:13:39 PM by BestOf

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Bellacide trigger warning: bitch from Texashire Since: Apr, 2012
trigger warning: bitch
#17: Nov 1st 2011 at 3:21:59 PM

^^ omg, I about died laughing when I first saw that video.

Edit: sunrises.

edited 1st Nov '11 3:23:53 PM by Bellacide

bye
MrW from some place Since: Sep, 2010
#18: Nov 1st 2011 at 3:24:49 PM

There was this man-made lake, surrounded by the forest. One day, the trees and the sky reflected of it as if it was an oil painting come to life.

All I have to say was, wish I brought my camera.

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BooleanEarth And a happy new year. from Banned Land Since: Jul, 2011
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#20: Nov 2nd 2011 at 8:35:56 PM

Tessa [name removed].

Runners up include a shot of broken glass and cigarette butts on a dance floor from the Twin Peaks movie, my own hand after I spilled ink on it, and a girl's face slowed down under a strobe light.

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Tumbril Since: Feb, 2010
#21: Nov 2nd 2011 at 9:09:18 PM

I don't know if it's the most, but I think the Afghan girl's eyes rank up there for me.

Tumblr here.
Wonderqueer Since: Aug, 2011
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Lead.
#23: Nov 2nd 2011 at 9:24:06 PM

I small town in China called Wu Xen.

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MyGodItsFullofStars Since: Feb, 2011
#24: Nov 3rd 2011 at 12:50:00 AM

Victoria Falls. Its got a permanent rainbow, and trees grow all the way down the sides, while gorgeous colored bee-eater birds flit about the mist. Also, the mist-forest contains dozens of species that grow nowhere else on Earth but that one particular cliff. This video doesn't nearly do it justice:

CommanderObvious intellectual rapist from Unmei no Itaru Basho Since: Jul, 2011
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#25: Nov 3rd 2011 at 3:47:04 AM

norio wakamoto

This level of trolling is reasonable for Commander Obvious. What do you think of this, everyone?

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