"Health, high spirits, serenity, these are the great landscape painters. Turners, Claudes, Rembrandts are nothing to them. We never see any beauty but as the garment of some virtue . . . The world is but a canvas to our imaginations."
Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Lichen rocks on the ridge above Montgomery Pass, Medicine Bow Mountains, CO; March 9, 2012. Thoreau is referring to J.M.W. Turner, the English Romantic landscape painter, and to Claude Monet and Rembrandt van Rijn.
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