Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

To be a strong courageous healthy spirit – delighting in the natural world, seeing it with the innocence of a child to whom each commonplace stone, blade of grass & sapling is a miracle. That is the secret of eternal youth, the secret that Beethoven had. Happy is the man who can go out into the fields & woods and hills, a free innocent being, unburdened by the world’s smartness & sophistication, its smug acceptance of freshly indulgences where a being to whom life & nature are eternal mysteries–