 In an article published in 1957 , which included eight full @-@ page photographs , Wright described his thoughts about how high mountain beauty resembles great music : " Beauty haunts the high country like a majestic hymn , sings in cold sunny air , the brilliant mountain air — makes of sunlight a living thing — floats in cloud forms — filters changing floods of light ever clothing the mountains anew . Beauty arrives in deep voice of river and wind through forest , swelling the chorus , giving sonority universal proportions . " He dedicated these words to Sierra Club leader William Edward Colby , and they became part of the introduction to Wright 's posthumous book , Words of the Earth . 
