John Ruskin Quotes about Mountain
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)
Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.
John Ruskin (1856). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 5. Of mountain beauty”, p.92
John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”