In this primitive fragment we find the hero of the mountain (Noah), invoking both Bel and Nebo, aerial and infernal Intelligences, and Adar the Chaldæan Hercules, for their ‘inspiration’—that breath which, in the biblical story, goes forth in the form of the Dove (‘the herald of his rest’ in the Accadian fragment), and in the ‘wind’ by which the waters were assuaged (in the fragment ‘the spirits of the earth’ which are given into the hand of the violent ‘hero of the mountain,’ whom alone the gods ‘will not urge’).
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In this connection let me say that all nature is interesting and all nature is beautiful, but all nature, as I have said, is not paintable.
— from Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 by Francis Hopkinson Smith