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