A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it. Scenery is not scenery – it is ‘country’…If it is good for sheep, it is beautiful, magnificent, and all the rest of it; if not, it is not worth looking at.
– Samuel Butler
On New Zealand
A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it. Scenery is not scenery – it is ‘country’…If it is good for sheep, it is beautiful, magnificent, and all the rest of it; if not, it is not worth looking at.
– Samuel Butler