Messages From Heaven: the Most Beautiful Sunrises

”Sunrise”

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The famous 19th century French Impressionist painter, Claude Monet obviously was influenced and inspired by the amazing array of colors and beauty of sunrises, because one of his most famous paintings is entitled Impression: soleil levant (Impression “Sunrise”). The setting of Monet’s “Sunrise” is looking over the French harbor Le Havre, while looking through his studio window in his hometown of Le Havre in 1874.

Hawaii Sunrise

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The famous American conservationist, naturalist and writer John Muir (1838-1914), who has been called “The Father of the National Parks System” once penned this beautiful quote:

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

Muir, who co-founded the Sierra Club and served as its first president from 1892 until his death in 1914, was also credited with authoring two books “The Mountains of California (1894) and “Our National Parks (1901).

Mount Raineer at Sunrise

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William Blake (1757-1827) was a famous British visionary, mystic, poet, painter and engraver, who was once considered insane and discredited by his peers has risen above his scoffers and is recognized among the greatest contributors to English literature and art.

At some point in William’s life, a sunrise inspired this famous quote; “He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise”.

Beautiful Sunrise

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George Harrison (1943-2001) was a famous musician, producer and composer that also happened to belong to one of the greatest (if not the greatest) British rock bands in history “The Beetles”.

Sunrises had at least some influence in his life when he quoted “Sunrise doesn’t last all morning, a cloudburst doesn’t last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It’s not always going to be this gray. All things must pass, all things must pass away.”

Sunrise in Yosemite Valley

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Legendary American photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984) spent a great portion of his life behind the lens of his camera documenting the immense and unraveled beauty of the Western United States with most notably his contribution to conservation efforts to preserve the natural beauty of Yosemite National Park.

Ansel Adams wrote, “Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.”

Haleakala Sunrise

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Joe Adcock (1927-1999) was a first baseman and one the top sluggers in baseball in the 1950s and early 1960s, hammering 336 homers during a long and successful seventeen year career, which he had played primarily for the Milwaukee Braves.

He too was inspired by his witnessing of sunrises and another tremendously talented baseball great Hank Aaron, “Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.”