Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Tree and Moonlight, 1915, watercolor and pencil on paper, Private Collection
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