Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.