Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Winter Sun, 1915; watercolor on paper, 14 x 20 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Tolstoy:
"A friend is good; but Nature is better; she is a friend whom one does not lose even in death; for when one dies he is completely reunited with her.”
(From “Tolstoy the Man” by Steiner).
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 28, 1915