> "Amen. Dutton describes a process of westernization of the perceptions that has had to happen before the West is beautiful to us. You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time."

Wallace Stegner, quoted from:

https://bensonian.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/you-have-to-get-o...

Also worth reading:

https://aarondenham.com/2021/09/04/getting-over-the-color-gr...