Vincent van Gogh: Kirschbaum. Frühjahr 1888, Öl auf Leinwand, 72,4 x 53,3 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Ittleson Jr. Fund, 1956), New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

All nature seems to speak….As for me, I cannot understand why everybody does not see it or feel it; nature or God does it for every one who has eyes and ears and a heart to understand.
Vincent Van Gogh, The complete letters, 248, I, 495. in D. Postema, Space for God.

There is something out there calling to us, to which we belong, greater than ourselves. We cannot escape the need to reach out beyond ourselves, to dreams, to other places, to other times. To sort of lose ourselves in something that transcends, and in the losing, to find ourselves.