...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness... those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator -- they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
Thomas Cole, 1835
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