- Frederick Church is quintessentially fundamentally existentially important in the American story.

He introduced this country to its own landscape.

- He was a painter.

He spoke in images.

He paints as if for dear life, he put all of that emotion into his paintings.

- In the 19th century landscape was in the air.

- Understanding a landscape is deciphering the intimate balance between the ecology of a place and the culture that shaped it.

- He's somebody who saw, I think, the potential for landscape to be something that unifies people.

He came back and he said, look how wonderful the world is.

Look how lucky we are to live in this extraordinary planet.