Mountains ‘‘ seem to have been built for the human race, 
as at once their schools and cathedrals; full of treasures of 
illuminated manuscript for the scholar, kindly in simple 
lessons for the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, 
glorious in holiness for the worshipper. They are great 
cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of 
cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults 
of purple traversed by the continual stars.”— RuskIn. 
