NATURE - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Caspar David Friedrich - Evening Landscape with Two Men

Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.....

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe