Re: Mountains

[Christian Folini]

Augustine of Hippo:
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, 
at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of 
the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the 
circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by
themselves without wondering.
http://quotations.about.com/od/stillmorefamouspeople/a/StAugustine1.htm

It's late antique, but if I remember it correctly,
it is this very passage which Petrarch cites.

So this interest in landscape and mountains was buried
for almost one thousand years and it resurfaced with
Petrarca.

But I do not think it was completely gone. But the
medieval writers, where not the ones to do hiking. :)

regs,

Christian


-- 
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.  The Spirits of
all Three shall strive within me.  I will not shut out the lessons that
they teach.
--- Charles Dickens