One side of the building opens up to the main road, and the other to the back garden, allowing natural light to easily flow through the oversized windows. In the bedroom, the window goes right down to the floor; the glass pane fills an opening that once was used to load in hay.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we get started<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense<\/a> of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me<\/strong>, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty<\/a>, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n