As incomparable today as it was in 1943. The embodiment of all that is admirable in humanity's endeavor to create, combined with nature's own grandeur, the ideal of harnessing but not limiting nature's powerful forces; providing for the going and coming of people and their commerce, both on and underneath the span. Beautiful as any marvel of engineering, a symbol of strength with flexibility, consonant with the beauty of the hills in which it is anchored and framing the spectacular Golden Gate itself, and its surging ebb and flow of tides beneath, all painted in vivid bold strokes of color that impact on the senses.