"The sagebrush, with its delicious aromatic fragrance and varying tints, gave almost as much pleasure as the flowers. It rarely approached the dullness of sage green, but varied from silvery white to the delicate shell pink of a sunset sky. Seen in great sheets over the lower slopes of the mountain, the sage...was particularly beautiful against the blue of the sky....I rested on the warm ground among the fragrant sagebrushes."

Florence A. Merriam, 1894