For comparison:
Scarier:
I’m beginning to think this quote isn’t as accurate as I once thought it was (re the “holy” anyway): “In America, alas, beauty has become something you drive to, and nature an either/or proposition—either you ruthlessly subjugate it, as at Tocks Dam and a million other places, or you deify it, treat it as something holy and remote, a thing apart, as along the Appalachian Trail.” p. 200, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson