Today our relationship with Nature is fundamentally passive. We conceive of Nature as existing on its own, without any connection to our inner experience. In reality, however, our lives are deeply intertwined with Nature, but we are initially incapable of raising this connection into consciousness. Thus we are called upon to awaken. We are called upon to become inwardly active: rather than accepting Nature as given, we can create our own image of her. We are then inwardly fully present in such images. No longer passive onlookers, we begin to sense within our own formative activity the same forces that work creatively in Nature. Nature is in fact a great artist, and if we wish to experience how she creates, we need artistic sensitivity, formative will, and pictorial imagination.