"The Mediterranean is more blue than elsewhere because firs and cedars and pines are not too green. The cliffs are more red than elsewhere because there is no prevailing tone of bare, baked earth to modify them into brown and gray. On the Riviera one does not have to give up the rich green of northern landscapes to enjoy the alternative of brilliant sunshine."
Excerpt From: Gibbons, Herbert Adams, 1880-. "Riviera towns." New York, R. M. McBride & co., 1920. iBooks.
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" the greens in an italian landscape are either pale and dusty or glossily dark. only when you climb to two thousand feet--and by no means invariably then--does anything like the brilliant, the seemingly self-luminous verdure of the english scene appear.
"the typical north italian landscape is one of hills, the lower slopes grey with olives, the summits, when they are above the level of cultivation, bare and brown.
" the south mediterranean landscape, which makes its first italian appearance at terracina, is bare, sharp-outlined and austerely brilliant the air is clear, and the far-seen earth seems itself to be made of coloured air. the landscape of northern italy is neither northern nor southern--neither aerially bright and light nor, on the other hand , rounded, or softly, luxuriously green."
aldous huxley, along the road. at the archive.org library.
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