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“... paintings of the mid-13th to the mid-15th century, which is the subject of a remarkable book by Paul Hills. The Light of Early Italian Paintings opens with a reminder that ‘the preoccupation with representing light that is characteristic of the Western tradition from the Renaissance to the Impressionists is a peculiarity.’ And whilst ...”

“... In memory of Charles SimicThat the Gallic tribes were the ‘people of the hills’(sharing an Indo-European root with collis),is an idea wherein their heirs in the Eastern Catskillsstill find a smidgin of solace.That the Gauls were the ‘people of the milky skin’from a galaxy far, far awaythat supplied Greece with boatloads of tinis another concept that holds sway ...”

“... were no leaders but they were first into the dark on Dog Fox Field: Anna who rocked her head, and Paul who grew big and yet giggled small, Irma who looked Chinese, and Hans who knew his world as a fox knows a field. Insisting that the dignity of persons is not based on intellect or achievement, Murray can be astonishingly good at expressing bodily feelings ...”

“... I live lies a loch called Lochmill. Half a mile long, it occupies a natural bowl in the Ochil hills, and is orientated almost exactly east-west. On its north and south banks grow sparse hawthorns tufted with lichen and old stunted oaks. At its western end, where the springs that feed the loch rise, Scots pines and larches dominate. On winter afternoons ...”

“... and later installed in the National Palace Museum, built specially for it in the subtropical hills of northern Taipei. Detail from Wen Zhengming’s ‘Zhong Kui in a Wintry Grove’ (1534) Before visiting the museum I spent some time looking through books of Chinese painting, making a list of works to see. One expert I spoke to warned me not to get ...”

“... North beyond Sarajevo is where the hills of Bosnia become less grey and gaunt than they are elsewhere, and a little further north again they slope away to the plain of Semberija along the Sava River. It is a pleasant enough country in normal times although a hungry one, with its peasants inhabiting scattered hamlets and family homesteads ...”

“... Earth: two little clusters of about a dozen structures known as Katund-Stratobërdhë in the hills south-west of Korçë, about 15 miles from the Greek border. ‘That’s it,’ an Albanian told me. ‘The name doesn’t mean something special. It’s just a village name.’ Before my birth it was agreed that I would be called Christina or Otis, but ...”

“... of other tutus in the first impression are subsumed into the foliate green of the backcloth. Paul Valéry wrote in 1935 that Degas’s ‘passion was to reconstruct the body of the female animal as the specialised slave of the dance, the laundry … or the streets’; the woman as ‘specialised slave’ of her repeated movements. For the dancer trained ...”

“... its rose-tinged limestone buildings rising from the grey sand in a shallow basin framed by low hills. It would have been an alien place to a visitor from Greece or Rome, full of strange temples to strange divinities such as the Mesopotamian god Bel, whose enormous sanctuary stood on the south-eastern edge of the city. A building resembling a rectangular ...”

“... a remote part of a Hawaiian island, on a steep bluff among my own clumping bamboo, surrounded by hills covered in dense forests of casuarina trees. The beach is half a mile down the hill, and if the day is sunny, which it usually is, after lunch I set up my folding chair under the palms and continue to write. When I’m done, I go for a swim. I feel lucky to ...”

“... evidence of any militant activity in response. Most Indian Tamils live on the plantations in the hills at the centre of the island, separated physically and socially from the more numerous Sri Lankan Tamils concentrated in the north and east of the country. The precise origins of this latter group, which comprises one-eighth of the population, are heatedly ...”

“... winds coming down off the highlands. The forms of earth are clear to see because the flanks of the hills and mountains are not so overgrown that their shapes and textures are concealed; their underlying geology shows in their contours and outcroppings of rock. In less open country, with less broad valleys and less immense skies, such rugged earth would be ...”

“... Glasgow solicitor, and a prominent objector to the dumping of nuclear waste in the Galloway hills, is found shot dead in his car with the revolver some twenty yards away in a stream? Are we to assume, as the authorities in Scotland did, that the solicitor had shot himself? How did he manage to hurl the gun that distance before his ...”

“... Untitled (1995-2000) has the mountain as a sea of greens against a cloudy pink sky. Set in the hills is a small square of bright red, a jolt in the field of colour.In her memoir, Journey to Mount Tamalpais (1986), Adnan describes the world around her with something approximating the range of her canvases, moving between the concrete and the spiritual. She ...”

“... Rills, Mix’d with red Mountains of unmelted Fire! Hissing, perplex’d, with Show’rs of Icy Hills, And Cat’ract Seas, that roar, from Worlds still higher; Mingled, like driving Hail, they pour along. You could hardly do better than this for a textbook example of the verbosity (‘flaming Regions of the burning Air’), meaninglessness (‘unmelted ...”