‘Dread revelations’
“Maine Woods” (oil paint), by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
Mount Katahdin in October
“Oh that we might be left alone for hours, to watch the changes of the landscape and hear the secret voice and dread revelations of these magnificent mountains! There are thoughts, deep and holy, which float through one’s mind, as, gazing down upon such a scene, one contrasts the smallness of man with the magnitude of God’s works, and in the weird silence contemplates the perishable of this world with the everlasting hills.
— From Canoe and Camera: A Two Hundred Mile Tour Through the Maine Forests, by Thomas Sedgwick Steele (1845-1903), American painter, photographer, writer and outdoorsman