Mountains · Skopia

Art

15

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

1832★ 9.3

A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains

1113★ 9.3

The Court of Gayumars

Sultan Muhammad

1525★ 9.0

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich

1818★ 8.8

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

1000★ 8.7

Early Spring

1072★ 8.3

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Quotes

3

Interview · Newspaper

Because it's there.

The New York Times · 1923

★ 9.0

Personal journal

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains—mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.

1890

★ 3.5

Today I climbed the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosus (Windy). The only motive for my ascent was the wish to see what so great a height had to offer.

1336

★ 1.9