But I found Lake Zürich’s equal at Lake Brienz, which in summer is a turquoise color of hypnotic clarity and is ringed by steep green cliffs, which, in winter, threaten the small villages along the shore with avalanches. In fact, the problem I encountered was that each lake in Switzerland was the most beautiful, if it happened to be the one you were on.

— Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, Faber & Faber, Ch. Far Away From Here, 2016