The Navajo word for beauty - "hozho" - has both moral AND aesthetic connotations.

"The term 'hozho' includes everything that a Navajo thinks of as good . . . It expresses such concepts as the words beauty, perfection, harmony, goodness, normality, success, well-being, blessedness, order ideal, do for us. This is probably the central idea in Navajo religious thinking . . . In various contexts it is best translated as 'beautiful,' 'harmonious,' 'good,' blessed,' 'pleasant,' and 'satisfying.' As a matter of fact the difficulty with translation primarily reflects the poverty of English in terms that simultaneously have moral AND aesthetic meaning."

Anthropologists Leland Wyman and Dlyde Kluckhohm

Photo: Courthouse Tower, Arches National Park, UT; April 27, 2013