“God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
pages 16-21 (at page 16)
1890s, The National Parks and Forest Reservations, 1895
“None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
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