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( continued ) " it is the hills of central Germany, the Harz, the Thuringian forest, the Weser mountains, that to me represent nature, that belong to me and have fashioned me."

"In my imagination I live a good deal in nature, in the glades near Friedrichsbrunn...I lie on my back in the grass, watch the clouds sailing in the breeze across the blue sky, and listen to the rustling of the woods. Its remarkable how greatly these memories of childhood affect one's whole outlook: it would seem to me impossible and unnatural for us to have lived either up in the mountains or by the sea."