Though it wasn’t a serious inquiry,

I was ready with an answer:

The sky is like a mirror.

It shows the same emotions as us;

When it is happy, it is soft and smiles brightly.

When it is sad, it cries.

When it is mad, it yells and stomps.

The sky wakes up and goes to sleep.

And at night, when it is sleeping,

The endless cosmos it holds show the vastness of its knowledge.

I was once asked why I have such a fascination with the sky.

My answer:

Because the sky reminds me to look up from my complex life,

And breathe.

Because it reminds me that I am but one of billions of humans on this planet,

But there is only one sky,

And it stretches over us all.

I was once asked why I have such a fascination with the sky;

And I answered:

“Because the sky is beautiful.”

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore… the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, - the totality of nature; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty ‘il piu nell uno.’ Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole" -Emerson
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist… Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" -Emerson
"The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right" -Henry David Thoreau
"If we do not get our sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads?... But if we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?" -Thoreau
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear… Each singing what belongs to him or her and none else, The day what belongs to the day--at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs." -Walt Whitman
The image connects to transcendentalism by depicting a person's spiritual energy harmonizing with nature and connecting with it; it embodies the idea of transcendentalism as a whole, showing how the subject, looking content in nature, is proud to shine with their individual harmony with nature.