Without rocks or mountains no country can be sublime; without water no landscape can be perfectly beautiful.


On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature, River (p. 19), Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1841


Without rocks or mountains no country can be sublime; without water no landscape can be perfectly beautiful.

Without rocks or mountains no country can be sublime; without water no landscape can be perfectly beautiful.

Without rocks or mountains no country can be sublime; without water no landscape can be perfectly beautiful.

Without rocks or mountains no country can be sublime; without water no landscape can be perfectly beautiful.