Nature's first form

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold. -Robert Frost

Nature is ever at work, building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. -John Muir

You paint the way you have to in order to give.  That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.  -Franz Kline