“Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe... the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness.”

“Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe... the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness.”

— Thomas Cole