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As Americans we are scarred by the dream of innocence. In our hearts we still believe that the only truly beautiful landscape is an unpeopled one. Unhappily, much in the record of your tenancy of this continent serves to confirm this view. So to wash our eyes of the depressing evidence we have raced deeper deeper into the wilderness, past the las stage-coach and the last motel, to see and claim a section of God's own garden before our fellows arrive to spoil it.

The New West ( Robert Adams ) / foreword by John Szarkowski