"Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them." ~ John Muir

The two waterfalls below (Vernal and Nevada Falls) feed the Merced River. While it is far from being a simple mountain stream, it does indeed sing the grandest history of the Yosemite Valley and Little Yosemite Valley. While I am still learning the language, I have no doubt the river has much to say about cousin “Half Dome”, while it literally creates its own weather which feeds the Merced. This view from Glacier Point is one of the most famous, yet probably only covers a very small percentage of all the true wilderness of Yosemite National Park.