This article discusses how drawing closer to nature, two profoundly important and powerful qualities are experienced. First, the entire world takes on a new degree of poignancy, luminosity, preciousness, subtlety, mystery, and intimacy. Second, the author points out how we increasingly experience ourselves in just the same way: poignant, luminous, precious, subtle, and mysterious. As we draw closer to nature, we simultaneously draw closer to ourselves, newly conceiving ourselves as an inextricable partner in the infinite web of life that is the world--all of it, all of us. How we compose our page, how we express ourselves through any artistic endeavor, correspondingly becomes equally graceful, rich, and full.