The Beauty of Quake Lake in the Winter

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

-Aristotle

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

-John Burroughs

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

-John Lubbock

Babe in the Trees

Winter Sunsets in West

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

-John Lubbock

Camouflage

Turquoise Tranquility

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Camille Pissarro