" I personally have seen flamingos throughout the state of Utah perched proudly on lawns and in the gravel gardens of trailer courts. These flamingos, of course, are not Phoenicopterus ruber, but pink, plastic flamingos that can easily be purchased at any hardware store.

It is curious that we need to create an environment foreign from our own. In 1985, over 450,000 plastic flamingos were purchased in the United States. And the number is rising.

Pink flamingos teetering on suburban lawns - our unnatural link to the natural world. "

― Terry Tempest Williams , Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place