"My imagination needed more space, my attention was directed towards other goals, my taste sought new pleasures ... Every year I hurried to a mountain range, climbed its peaks to feel those deep impressions that come from contemplating the vast horizon. Up there I thought about the origins of the globe, the upheavals it has undergone, the processes that have changed its forms and brought about its present state ... As I climbed higher and higher, giving more and more space to my thoughts, my view of the world also grew stronger: my horizon encountered fewer and fewer limits. "

Déodat de Dolomieu"