Note 26 — PART II Literary Section (continued 2)

Cf. here the poet's words: “It is strange that nature is personified for me, that I not only live in her, but as one human being with another, exchanging, not merely receiving, thoughts and feelings, and even so, that different places become as individual to me, distinct from others and, as it were, transformed in consciousness, so that I not only feel that they effect an influence upon me but it seems to me as if I work upon them, and the forms, as they appear to me, show the traces of this influence.” Further: “I … who stood even in a wonderful mutual understanding with mountain and flora, because the kingdom of love was not to be restrained.…”