"Nature is not to be copied," Jensen wrote in Siftings, "Man cannot copy God's out-of-doors. He can interpret its message in a composition of living tones."* This photograph of the prairie river bank shows how water, sky, and groups of plants each contribute color, shape, and texture to a landscape composition.

* Siftings, page 105, 1990, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Originally published in 1939 by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher, Chicago, Illinois.