Under your fig-tree, bowed with fruit
And warranting repose,
Under your pine, inviting shady joy,
Unchanging blooms
Eternal Spring!
Friedrich Stolberg was a very prophet of Nature; in his ode Nature he says:
He who does not love Nature cannot be my friend.
His prayer may serve as the motto of his day:
Holy Nature, heavenly fair,
Lead me with thy parent care;