"Oh I am sick of brick and stone" (Masefield)

"Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own. But all these, at one point or another, somewhere link on intimately with human life and human experience. They stir comprehensible, even if alarming, emotions."
-from "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood

Art: Rain in an Oak Forest, Ivan Shishkin (1891)

via The Thinker's Garden