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Inspirational Quotes about Crater Lake – Assembled by Interp. Ranger Kevin Bacher – for Crater Lake National Park’s Cententenial celebration. Some of these quotes were also used in the new Sinnott Memorial Exhibit Room.
“Upon rising the slope bordering the lake, the first impression made upon your mind is one of disappointment; it does not come up to your expectations; but this is only momentary. A second look, and you begin to comprehend the majestic beauties of the scenery spread out before you, and you sit down on the brink of the precipice, and feast your eyes on the awful grandeur, your thoughts wander back thousands of years to the time when, where now is a placid sheet of water, there was a lake of fire, throwing its cinders and ashes to vast distances in every direction. The whole surroundings prove this lake to be the crater of an extinct volcano. The appearance of the water in the basin, as seen from the top of the mountain, is that of a vast circular sheet of canvass, upon which some painter had been exercising his art. The color of the water is blue, but in very many different shades, and like the colors in variegated silk, continually changing…. As I do not believe any more majestic sheet of water is found upon the face of the globe, I propose the name “[Lake] Majesty.”
– Captain Franklin B. Sprague, Soldier, U.S. Army, Fort Klamath, 1865 (describing his visit to the lake August 24, 1865)
“To say that this wonderful lake is grand, beyond description, is to give an idea of its magnificence. Everyone gazes at it in almost tearful astonishment.”
– Jim Sutton, Editor, Jacksonville – Oregon Sentinel newspaper, 1869
(from his account of visiting the lake)
“Not a foot of the land about the lake had been touched or claimed. An overmastering conviction came to me that this wonderful spot must be saved, wild and beautiful, just as it was, for all future generations, and that it was up to me to do something. I then and there had the impression that in some way, I don’t know how, the lake ought to become a National Park. I was so burdened with the idea that I was distressed. Many hours in Captain Dutton’s tent, we talked of plans to save the lake from private exploitation. We discussed its wonders, mystery and inspiring beauty, its forests and strange lava structure. The captain agreed with the idea that something ought to be done—and done at once if the lake was to be saved, and that it should be made a National Park.”
– William Gladstone Steel, “Founding Father” and second superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, 1886
(from an article published in the March 1886 issue of The West Shore, a literary magazine in Portland, Oregon. Another version of this account may be found in the 1917 Proceedings of the National Parks Conference.)
“In the heart of the Cascade Range there is a little sheet of water which is destined to take high rank among the wonders of the world. It is a unique phenomenon, taken as a whole….
“It is deeper and richer than the blue of the sky above on the clearest day. Just at the margin of the lake it shades into a turquoise, which is, if possible, more beautiful still. Ordinarily the water surface is mirror-like, and reflects an inverted image of the surrounding cliffs in detail. Very majestic, too, are the great environing walls. On the west side they reach their greatest altitude, rising almost vertically more than 2,000 feet above the water. It is difficult to compare this scene with any other in the world, for there is none that sufficiently resembles it; but, in a general way, it may be said that it is of the same order of impressiveness and beauty as the Yosemite Valley. It was touching to see the worthy but untutored people, who had ridden a hundred miles in freight-wagons to behold it, vainly striving to keep back tears as they poured forth their exclamations of wonder and joy akin to pain. Nor was it less so to see so cultivated and learned a man as my companion hardly able to command himself to speak with his customary calmness.
“To the geologist this remarkable feature is not less impressive than it is to the lover of the beautiful.”
– Captain Clarence E. Dutton, U.S. Geological Survey, 1886
(from his article “Crater Lake, Oregon, A Proposed National Reservation” in the February 26, 1886 issue of Science)
“In respect to beauty and impressiveness this scenery is of the same order as that of the Yosemite Valley or the finest parts of the Yellowstone Park. The lake itself is a unique object, as much so as Niagara, and the effect which it produces upon the mind of the beholder is at once powerful and enduring. There are probably not many natural objects in the world which impress the average spectator with so deep a sense of the beauty and majesty of nature.”
– John Wesley Powell, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1888
(from correspondence with Senator Preston Plumb)
“The day after launching the Cleetwood, nine members of our party made the circuit of the lake on a sort of casual observation, or tour of inspection. The scenery was grand to a degree far beyond our most sanguine expectations. Four strong oarsmen soon brought us to Llao Rock, and as we gazed in silent wonder at its rugged sides, reaching nearly half a mile above us, for the first time did we realize the immensity of such a spectacle. Never before did I fully understand the meaning of figures when they run up into the thousands of feet, vertical measurement….
“Here all the ingenuity of nature seems to have been exerted to the fullest capacity, to build one grand, awe-inspiring temple, from which to live and from which to gaze upon the surrounding world and say: ‘Here would I dwell and live forever. Here would I make my home from choice; the universe is my kingdom, and this my throne.’”
– William Gladstone Steel, “Founding Father” and second superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, 1889
(writing about the 1886 “Cleetwood” USGS expedition in his book The Mountains of Oregon)
“We were apparently on the highest point of the earth, for there was nothing to look up to, and it would not have surprised me to have been whirled off into space. The solitude of the situation was thrilling.
“One cannot, owing to the sunken position of the lake, discover it until close upon its rim, and I say here, without exaggeration, that no pen can reproduce its image, no picture be painted to do it justice; nor can it, for obvious reasons, be satisfactorily photographed. At the first view a dead silence fell upon our party. A choking sensation arose in our throats, and tears flowed over our cheeks. I do not pretend to analyze the emotion, but, if I were to endeavor to compare it with anything I ever read, I should say it must be such a feeling which causes the Cherubim to veil their faces before God. To me it was a revelation.
“The water of Crater Lake is of the loveliest blue imaginable in the sunlight, and a deep indigo in the shadows of the cliffs. It mirrors the walls encircling it accurately and minutely. It has no well-like appearance because it is too large to suggest it, yet a water-fowl on its surface could not be discovered by the naked eye, so far below us is it. It impresses one as having been made for the Creator’s eye only, and we cannot associate it with our human affairs. It is a font of the gods, wherein our souls are baptized anew into their primal purity and peace.”
– Frances Fuller Victor, Author, 1891
(describing a visit to the lake in 1873, in her book Atlantis Arisen; or, Tales of a Tourist About Oregon and Washington)
“To me Crater Lake is the most impressively beautiful body of water in all the world that I have found…. five or six miles in diameter, nearly circular, the vast crater of an extinct volcano…. Wagons may be driven to the very edge of the mountain that contains the lake, where it breaks suddenly off into abrupt spurs and rough precipices that plunge directly 2000 feet below into almost unknown depths. This volcano-hewn rim, unpolished and severe, extends for twenty-five miles around and above the lake, marking the contour of the huge pit wherein the water serenely lies….”
– Fay Fuller, Mountaineer, 1896
(describing her visit to the mountain with the Mountaineers climbing club, published in the Tacoma Ledger September 6, 1896)
“Aside from its attractive scenic features, Crater Lake affords one of the most interesting and instructive fields for the study of volcanic geology to be found anywhere in the world. Considered in all its aspects, it ranks with the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, the Yosemite Valley, and the Falls of Niagara….”
-J.S. Diller, Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, 1897
(from an article in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institute)
“Crater Lake is one of the great natural wonders of this continent.”
– Gifford Pinched, Advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt on matters of conservation and public lands, 1902
(in correspondence with William Steel)
“The Lake? The Sea of Silence? Ah, yes…. It took such hold on my heart, so unlike Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, when first seen, that I love it almost like one of my own family. But fancy a sea of sapphire set around by a compact circle of the great grizzly rock of Yosemite. It does not seem so sublime at first, but the mote is in your own eye. It is great, great; but it takes you days to see how great. It lies 2,000 feet under your feet, and as it reflects its walls so perfectly that you can not tell the wall from the reflection in the intensely blue water you have a continuous unbroken circular wall of 24 miles to contemplate at a glance, all of which lies 2,000 feet, and seems to lie 4,000 feet, below. Yet so bright, so intensely blue is the lake, that it seems at times, from some points of view, to lift right in your face….
“The one thing that strikes you… is the silence, the profound pathetic silence that broods at all times over all things. The huge and towering hemlocks sing their low monotone, but that is all you hear… It is not an intense silence, as if you were lost, but a sweet sympathetic silence that makes itself respected and all the people are as if in a church.
“Crater Lake resents familiarity. I have seen newly arrived people crowd to the bastions, talking and laughing loudly. They soon grow silent, break up and wander away singly or in quiet couples.”
– Joaquin Miller, Author and Poet, 1904
(from “The Sea of Silence,” Sunset Magazine, September 1904)
“The plan is now to build, have the government build, a drive around the lake, so that all these points may be considered in a single day from a carriage. And a great hotel is planned! And a railroad must be made to whisk you through the life-and-vigor-giving evergreen forests of Arden. Well, so be it, if you must so mock nature and break this hush and silence of a thousand centuries, but I shall not be here. No hotel or house or road of any sort should ever be built near this Sea of Silence. All our other parks have been surrendered to hotels and railroads. Let us keep this last and best sacred to silence and nature. That which is not worth climbing to see is not worth seeing.”
– Joaquin Miller, Author and Poet, 1904
(from “The Sea of Silence,” Sunset Magazine, September 1904)
“Crater Lake is the greatest asset to southern Oregon. It is worth traveling hundreds of miles to see. I thought that I had gazed upon everything beautiful in nature as I have spent many years traveling thousands of miles to view the beauty spots of the earth, but I have reached the climax. Never again can I gaze upon the beauty spots of the earth and enjoy them as being the finest thing I have ever seen. Crater Lake is far above them all.”
– Jack London, Author, 1911
(After a visit to Crater Lake on August 11, 1911)
“The sight of it fills one with more conflicting emotions than any other scene with which I am familiar. It is at once weird, fascinating, enchanting, repellent, of exquisite beauty and at times terrifying in its austere-dignity and oppressing stillness. In the sparkling sunlight, its iridescent hues are dazzling and bewildering. When a storm is on, it throws terror into the heart of the observer and carries the mind back through the eons when it was born in Titan throes of nature. There are a few other crater lakes in the world…. but there is none known to man that can remotely approximate the transcendent beauty of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park.”
– Mark Daniels, former General Superintendent and Landscape Engineer of National Parks, 1916 (in an article in the October 1916 issue of American Forests)
“In many ways this is the most remarkable body of water in the world. There is no lake its equal in depth, no lake so blue, none surrounded by such precipitous walls. Its whole setting is strange and unusual: it is a lake in a mountain-top, occupying the crater of a burnt-out volcano…. All the scenic beauties of the vast Cascade Range await the visitor to this famous summer pleasure-ground of Oregon; and most splendid of them all, a wonder among wonders, is that magical mirror held up to catch and intensify the blue of the sky—Crater Lake.”
– Aubrey Drury, Conservationist, 1917
(writing in the April 1917 issue of Sunset)
“…the best intended adjectives, even when winged by the energetic pen of the most talented ad writer, cannot begin to convey the glowing, changing, mysterious loveliness of this lake of unbelievable beauty. In fact, the tourist, with expectation at fever-heat by the time he steps from the auto-stage upon the crater rim, is silenced as much by astonishment as by admiration.
“Before him lies a crater of pale pearly lava several miles in diameter. A thousand feet below its rim is a rake whose farthest blues vie in delicacy with the horizon lavas, and deepen as they approach till at his feet they turn to almost black. There is nothing with which to compare the near-by blue looked sharply down upon from Crater’s rim. The deepest indigo is nearest its intensity, but at certain angles falls far short.
“Nor is it only the color which affects him so strongly; its kind is something new, startling, and altogether lovely. Its surface, so magically framed and tinted, is broken by fleeting silver wind-streaks here and there; otherwise, it has the vast stillness which we associate with the Grand Canyon and the sky at night. The lava walls are pearly, faintly blue afar off, graying and daubed with many colors nearer by. Pinks, purples, brick-reds, sulfurs, orange-yellows and many intermediates streak and splash the foreground gray. And often pine-green forests fringe the rim, and funnel down sharply tilted canyons to the water’s edge; and sometimes shrubs of livelier green find foothold on the gentler slopes, and, spreading, paint bright patches. Over all, shutting down and around it like a giant bowl, is a sky of California blue overhead softening to the pearl of the horizon. A wonderful spectacle indeed!”
– Robert Sterling Yard, Author, 1919
(from his book The Book of the National Parks)
“I expected something remarkable, but was not prepared for a scene of such wonder and beauty…. It seemed a blue gulf…No where else had I ever seen such a shade of blue…. How exquisite, rare, unreal!”
– Zane Grey, Author, 1919
(describing his visit to Crater Lake)
“The trout lack fight… The crater of an extinct volcano is not a natural environment for fish.”
– Zane Grey, Author, 1920
(in an article in Country Gentlemen magazine, May 15, 1920)
“Remember that there is no lake its equal in depth; no other lake of such size occupying the crater of an extinct volcano; no other lake surrounded by such artistically colored, rugged mountain walls; and no other body of water of such a wonderful, indescribable blue. This coloring, varying from a faint turquoise to the deepest indigo blue, makes Crater Lake one of the most beautiful spots in America.”
Cooperative Extension Work
In Agriculture and Home Economics
State of Louisiana
Hope Villa, La. May 23, 1920
Mr. Zane Grey
Car and Country Gentlemen
Dear Sir:
Your recent article in the Country Gentleman about Crater Lake Trout was greatly interesting to me, because up until his death a few years ago, I was the companion and friend of J. W. Hillman, the man who discovered Crater Lake. I have often heard him say that the Indians would never think of eating fish caught from this particular lake, nor were any of them allowed to gaze upon its beauty save the medicine men.
Just before Mr. Hillman’s death in 1915, Mr. W. G. Steel, who worked for many years in the interest of Crater Lake National Park, wrote for the history of his life. His object was, I believe, to have it printed in a government bulletin so that it might be preserved. However, Mr. Steel received an appointment elsewhere. Mr. Hillman died and I entered the army and it was not until I read your article that I thought of the story in my files.
It was Mr. Hillman’s dearest wish to see his story in print before he died; but such was not the case. Mr. Emerson Hough had an article in the Saturday Evening Post a few years ago about Crater Lake and he gave Mr. Hillman a paragraph or two; but the poor old fellow had been dead about three months when this was printed. I realize that there are numerous deficiencies in the story as it stands; but I thought that you might get enough material out of it to make an interesting article to follow up the one just published. Trusting that you will be able to do this, I am,
Yours truly,
Bentley B. Mackay
County Agent
– Henry O. Reik, Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps, 1920
From his book A Tour of America’s National Parks)
“Blundering through this wilderness of sin and corruption, tasting of its wickedness, and forgetting my duty to God and man, striving to catch bubbles of pleasure and the praise of men, guilty of many transgressions, I now look back on this my 76th birthday, and my heart bounds with joy and gladness, for I realize that I have been the cause of opening up this wonderful lake for the pleasure of mankind, millions of whom will come and enjoy it and unborn generations will profit by its glories. Money knows no charm like this and I am the favored one. Why should I not be happy?”
– William Gladstone Steel, “Father of Crater Lake National Park” and its second superintendent, 1930
(from a transcript of a verbal interview, September 7, 1930)
“While at the Lake in 1885, I had a strong desire to go out upon its surface under favorable circumstances, but had no boat. As soon as they were launched in 1886, I began watching for a favorable opportunity and about the time of the full moon I slipped out of camp one night, pulled out near the center and stopped for observation. There was not a breath of air stirring and reflections were as perfect as it could have been in a plate glass mirror. The walls were clearly outlined above the water and below were inverted, but just as clear. Upon yonder a full moon floated in the air and down below it was just as clear and beautiful. The North Star was clear above and below, as were also the Pleiades. The Milky Way seemed clearer below than above. I was an atom in the center of an enormous sphere, looking up to the starry heavens and looking down to its counterpart. The shoreline and its reflection appeared as a great knot hole, with creation above and creation below. Did ever human eye behold such a sight? Why should I be favored? God in his infinite mercy permitted me to look out upon His glorious works as never man did before. Why should I not be grateful?”
– William Gladstone Steel, “Founding Father” and second superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, 1930
(from a transcript of a verbal interview, September 7, 1930. An earlier version of this account may also be found in Steel Points, January 1907.)
What a mighty height was there,
Where earliest spread the crimson
Mantle of the dawn;
And the last ray of the sun
Tinged its snows to rose,
As the curtain of the night was drawn.
What a mighty depth is here,
Where clouds of pearl drift far below
And stars show through;
Where sunbeams play with emerald-purple waves
And all the Silent Sea is stained with blue.
– Stanton C. Lapham, Author and poet, 1931
(from his book The Enchanted Lake: Mount Mazama and Crater Lake in Story, History and Legend)
“Words fail us and all poetry of color and form seem lacking and inadequate when we attempt to depict the beauty and mystery of Crater Lake. Our emotions are strangely moved as we gaze upon the indescribable blue of the Lake and begin to comprehend its placid charm and natural loveliness, girded about by beetling, broken crags, fiercely riven walls and mighty reaching cliffs. Here is harmony—a symphony in color and exquisite beauty beyond words, yet pressed about by awesome volcanism, molten destruction and towering crags, where the very heart of a torn, splintered mountain is half filled with water more blue than the arching sky above. Strange indeed and fanciful is the scene when we behold the perfect mirroring of clouds, trees and rocky walls upon a liquid surface as blue as the blue of forget-me-nots. We have nothing in our experiences, or our observations with which to compare Crater Lake. It is unlike any other natural wonder in the world. It is the Jeweled Sapphire of the Cascades, set in a matrix of peaks and castled walls; we may look upon it but once then wear it in our hearts forever.”
– Stanton C. Lapham, Author, 1931
(from his book The Enchanted Lake: Mount Mazama and Crater Lake in Story, History and Legend)
Fanciful scene of a world on high,
Romance in color and might;
Charming picture hung in the sky,
Fathomless deep, and piercing height.
Mysterious waters of changing blue,
Embraced by walls and towers;
Borders of purple, and emerald hue,
Vastness and radiant flowers.
Likeness of lovers’ thought,
Inspired by a Master’s hand;
Wondrous reflections deftly wrought,
Loch of a poet’s land.
Play ground of nymphs in legend old,
Passion of fire and earth;
Turquoise, sapphire, azure and gold,
Abode of Spirits who gave it birth.
Ennobling majesty, alluring view,
Grandeur and beauty make;
Coalescent sea and sky in blue,
Haunting, Enchanted Lake.
– Stanton C. Lapham, Author and poet, 1931 (from his book The Enchanted Lake: Mount Mazama and Crater Lake in Story, History and Legend)
The Sea of Sapphire
So still, so peaceful, placid-blue,
Guarding a monarch’s grave from view,
No sound but breathless stillness deep,
Nor rippling waves disturb his sleep;
Mazama’s gone! but in his wake,
A lovely jeweled sapphire lake.
Born of chaos, fire and smoke,
Turbulent nature did’st invoke
Mazama’s fall—that thou should’st be,
Silent, mysterious, sapphire sea.
– Belle Menefee Meyer, Poet, 1932 (originally published in the Crater Lake Nature Notes, July 1932; later published in her book Sea of Sapphire (Crater Lake) and Other Poems, copyright 1941)
Wizard Island
Where the great shadows waver, grim and gaunt,
Its roots are locked, but gently to the skies
It holds a sunlight-brimming cup, the haunt
Of hummingbirds and lacy butterflies.
– Ernest G. Moll, Poet, 1935
(from his book Blue Interval)
“With all the lakes there are in the world and all the poetic phrases which have been used to describe them, it would seem that one six-mile lake in the Cascades might not deserve much in the way of superlatives…. But the deep opalescent blue of Crater Lake is like some ethereal light borrowed from the skies. The ancients would have called it a creation of the gods. No one can look upon it and not be moved emotionally and spiritually.”
– Harlean James, Author, 1939 (from his book Romance of the National Parks)
“More and more we are thinking seriously of endeavoring in every possible way to keep the waters of Crater Lake, the crater walls, and Wizard Island areas in as natural a condition as possible, unmodified by the hand of man.
“There are many lakes in Oregon suitable for fishing, boating, swimming, and other recreational sports, but there is only one Crater Lake in the world.”
- Ernest P. Leavitt, Superintendent, Crater Lake National Park, 1940? (from correspondence on the issue of fish in Crater Lake)
“Looking at the Lake for perhaps the first, perhaps the hundredth time, we are unceasingly impressed by the roundness of this caldron of deep blue water, by the steepness of the slopes delineating the Lake, by the intense color of the waters accented by the green hemlocks and multicolored rim and by a sensation of height and space gained from being on top of a collapsed mountain….
“Line and pattern add to the picture: The frivolous wind ripples playing constantly about on the surface of the Lake create an ever-changing pattern; reflections of the steep rim walls and passing clouds add soft line and color; layers of long-erupted lavas parallel the sky as huge rock slides reach skyward from the water; and light and shadow produce shifting contrasts….
“The finishing touch to our impressions of beauty born of form, line and pattern is color – color born of light as it reflects from the steep walls and deep water; color which at first is not apparent, so subtle is its effect upon our view. But, as we continue to look at this incomparable scene, we begin to see myriad hues within the frame of this ‘deep Blue Lake.’
“The primary color, and the only color evident to many, is Crater Lake Blue. So blue is it that one feels it cannot be real! But the Lake varies in shade from pale, baby blue where the horizon is reflected, to a somber midnight blue when, near sunset, the cliffs cast their dark shadows upon the waters. Thus, since the origin of these colors is dependent mainly on light, as the light changes so does the blue.
“The pastels of the rim contrast strikingly with the intensity of the water and serve well to enhance its beauty. Such are the vivid pinks of Dutton Cliff, the softer hues of Red Cloud Cliff – startlingly accented by the tile red of Pumice Castle; the brilliant golds and browns of Garfield Peak and Chaski Slide which turn to turquoise the water of Eagle Bay; the somber grays and blacks of Roundtop and Palisades which form a fitting backdrop to vivid crustose lichens of chartreuse, orange, blue-gray and black. A symphony of gray rises from the andesitic and dacitic flows of Mt. Mazama – in Llao Rock, Palisades, Roundtop, and the cinder of Wizard Island, Red Cloud Cliff, Sentinel Point, the many layers of Dutton Cliff, Phantom Ship and those transient summer visitors, the thunderheads. And over all the rim lies the light tan of pumice flows, a neutral color which ties together all in peaceful harmony of line and color….”
– Beatrice E. Willard, Ranger-Naturalist, 1953 (from the Nature Notes for that year) (Author’s note: Lloyd worked with Dr. Willard at Southern Oregon College and at Rocky Mountain National Park. 1963 – 1964)
“I had the distinct privilege of conducting 17 dives in Deep Rover. As I slowly sank into the depths of the lake, I was engulfed in blue which eventually turned to darkness. The only sounds in the submarine were the creaking and popping of the hull as it adjusted to the increasing pressure and the persistent hum of the carbon dioxide scrubbers cleaning the air. The journey to the bottom could take up to 30 minutes, during which time my personal fears were easily extinguished by the intrigue and demands of the work. After reaching the bottom on my dive to the deepest part of Crater Lake, I shut off the scrubbers and instrument lights to better experience the solitude and quiet, and to briefly reflect on being the first person to visit the deepest part of the lake. After several moments, I looked up through the clear acrylic hull and noticed that the dive flag mounted on top of the submarine was visible, and silhouetted against a slightly lighter background. At 1,932 feet in depth my eyes could detect the vague light from the surface, a surprising testament to Crater Lake’s incredible clarity.”
– Mark Bucktanica, Aquatic Biologist, Crater Lake National Park, 1988
(describing his dive to the bottom of Crater Lake in the submersible Deep Rover)
“Hidden in its sublime setting until the final moment, Crater Lake bursts into one’s consciousness in full-blown glory upon first sight. Regardless of what people expect upon arrival at the rim of the caldera, they react in the same way. Thousands of well traveled place-baggers stop in their tracks, cease their conversations about ‘more important stuff,’ and just gape….
“This blue sea of silence draws us into its spell and forever changes the way we view ourselves as we try to understand the awesome forces that created this famous place. We come away with respect for the greater cosmos when we realize that we cannot improve upon it. Humbled by this knowledge, we feel a commitment to protect the integrity of such places. The noise of civilization sometimes needs the reassurance of silence to keep itself on track. By preserving the lake, we enhance our humanity. We need to leave Crater Lake just the way it is, so that it may continue to inspire us.”
– Ron Warfield, Author, Photographer, and former Chief of Interpretation at Crater Lake National Park, 1998 (from his book A Wish You Were Here Book: Crater Lake National Park)
The Enchanted Lake by Stanton Lapham
What a mighty depth is here,
Where clouds of pearl drift far below
And stars show through,
Where sunbeams play with emerald-purple waves
And all the Silent Sea is stained with blue.
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beauty of Crater Lake
National Park, it’s unique
ecological and cultural
heritage; and to foster
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