"To stand on some high vantage point, where I can gaze out over the limitless sea of chaparral is to me a delight; to follow it with my eye, as it runs over ridges and dips down into cañons, then up another ridge and on again, is an inspiration; to see it extend on and on, until it disappears in the horizon or drops behind some distant range, and realize the part it plays in the Creator's plan of Conservation, is an exaltation."

-- Francis Fultz