Carmel Point

Carmel Point, also known as the Point, is an unincorporated community in Monterey County, California, United States. It is a cape located at the southern city limits of Carmel-by-the-Sea and offers views of Carmel Bay, the mouth of Carmel River, and Point Lobos. Carmel Point was also known as Point Loeb or Reamer's Point.

Carmel Point at Scenic Road

Quotes

Robinson Jeffers

• Carmel Point
  The extraordinary patience of things!
  This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses—
  How beautiful when we first beheld it,
  Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
  No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,
  Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop rockheads—
  Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
  Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
  That swells and in time will ebb, and all
  Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty
  Lives in the very grain of the granite,
  Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff. As for us:
  We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
  We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
  As the rock and ocean that we were made from.
  • Robinson Jeffers. Modern American Poetry.
  • Robinson Jeffers coined the word "inhumanism", which is the belief that humankind is too self-centered to the "astonishing beauty of things." In the poem Carmel Point, Jeffers called on humans to "uncenter" themselves.