There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.
In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
It's fascinating to go somewhere where you're away from everything. There are no houses, no buildings, no roads, no people. And for a little less extreme hunting, any place in the West - Colorado, Utah, Montana - that's just beautiful country.
A desert is a place without expectation.