crush.

The earth never tires,
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first;
        nature is rude and incomprehensible at first;
Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd,
I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

~ Walt Whitman, 'Song of the Open Road' (from the larger work Leaves of Grass)
Excerpted from These We Inherit the Parklands of America by Ansel Adams