As the sun angled, the buttes and coulees, the cliffs and sculptured hills and ravines lost their burned and dreadful look and glowed with yellow and rich browns and a hundred variations of red and silver gray, all picked out by streaks of coal black. It was so beautiful that I stopped near a thicket of dwarfed and wind-warped cedars and junipers, and once stopped I was caught, trapped in color and dazzled by the clarity of the light. What is the author’s purpose for providing the description in this passage?

to persuade people to visit the Bad Lands
to inform people of the natural beauty in a part of America
to argue against development of the Bad Lands
to entertain people with the unusual sights