Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.121, Northwestern University Press