The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Morris, William, 1834-1896, Kelmscott Press · Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen · leaf 23
s in thisvery character that it deserves our profoundestreverence. HE charts of the world which havebeen drawn up by modern sciencehave thrown into a narrow space Sthe expression of a vast amount of^ knowledge, but I have never yetseen any one pictorial enough toenable the spectator to imagine the… … them in their fulness* We know that gentians grow Savageness on the Alps^and olives on the Apennines; but we do not enough conceive for ourselves that varies gated mosaic of the world^s surface which a bird sees in its migration^ that difference between the district of the gentian and of the oHve…
Architecture, Gothic
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