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 woilsej, 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." — Uuskin. 



