Guiding Light (Kings Canyon)

O take fast hold; let that light be thy guide -Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest But to Dust

Angelic Light (Kings Canyon)

And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light. -William Wordsworth (1770-1850), She Was a Phatom of Delight

Trembling Air (Kings Canyon)

Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; -Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599), Prothalamion

Free As Wind (Yosemite)

My lines and life are free; free as the road,   Loose as the wind, as large as store. -George Herbert (1593-1633), The Collar

Following the Light (Yosemite)

Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might     To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be, Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light,     That doth both shine and give us sight to see. -Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest But to Dust

Sign (SF Bay)

God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, the fire next time! -Anonymous, Negro spiritual

Captive Light (Great Smoky Mountains)

If a star were confin'd into a tomb,     Her captive flames must needs burn there; But when the hand that locked her up, gives room,     She'll shine through all the sphere. -Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), They Are All Gone into the World of Light

Burning Spear (White Sands)

With an host of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. -Anonymous (c.1400-c.1600), Tom o' Bedlam's Song

Let There Be Light (Carlsbad)

Let there be light. -The Old Testament, Genesis 1:1-3