John Muir and Timothy Severin describe these different landscapes as "The Imcomparable Yosemite" and describe the landscape "The Imcomparable Yosemite" as the most striking and sublime features on the grandest scale. Timothy Severin described the landscape as "The Great Wall of China" and one of the greatest geographical facts of Asia. It is an immense land-locked trought a thousand miles long and up to six hundred miles wide.
John Muir speaks about the landscape of the "Yosemite Valley" in California. He talks about how the landscape is the most famous and accessible of these canon valleys, and also the one that presents their most striking and sublime features on the grandest scale, is the Yosemite situated in the basin of the Merced River. John tells us that the valley is made out of rocks, mountains in size, partly separated, from each other by side canons, and they are so sheer in the front. In the text it states that "Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: their feet among beautiful groves…show more content… The Gobi Desert is one of the greatest geographical facts in Asia, an immense land-locked trough a thousand miles long and up to six hundred miles wide, which has hindered invaders, explorers, diplomats, and traders throughout the whole of Asia's history, Timothy said. The Gobi Desert has enough pasture for the flocks of sheep and goats. Temperatures can reach well past one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, and there's no rain in eight months. In the text it states that "The winter wind is the buran, a howling blizzard out of Sibera. which slashes across the flatlands of the Gobi with numbing cold, drifting the snow against every obstacle while the temperature slumps to ten degrees of frost." This describes how the climate is in the Gobi Desert and also Timothy explaining how the Desert looks like in each season that passes
