Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 / 2008-07-03 00:00:00

Much of the majesty of
French landscape consists in its grand and grey village churches and
turreted farmhouses, not to speak of its cathedrals, castles, and
beautifully placed cities. [Ruskin.]
[25] One of the principal reasons for the false supposition that
Switzerland is not picturesque, is the error of most sketchers and
painters in representing pine forest in middle distance as dark green,
or grey green, whereas its true colour is always purple, at distances
of even two or three miles. Let any traveller coming down the
Montanvert look for an aperture, three or four inches wide, between
the near pine branches, through which, standing eight or ten feet
from it, he can see the opposite forests on the Breven or Flegere.
Those forests are not above two or two and a half miles from him;
but he will find the aperture is filled by a tint of nearly pure
azure or purple, not by green. [Ruskin.]
[26] The Savoyard's name for its flower, "Pain du Bon Dieu," is very
beautiful; from, I believe, the supposed resemblance of its white
and scattered blossom to the fallen manna, [Ruskin.]
[27] _Ezekiel_ vii, 10; _Hosea_ vi, 3.
[28] In "The Mountain Gloom," the chapter immediately preceding.
[29] Ruskin refers to _The Fulfilling of the Scripture_, a book by
Robert Fleming [1630-94].
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