There are those who can see the mountains, the rivers, the earth, the grass, the trees, the tile, the pebble, as their own essential nature...Their minds are one with the atmosphere of the waterfall, the stones, the grass, and trees, changing through the four seasons.

Musō Soseki (1275 CE-1351 CE), Musō Soseki was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi (夢窓国師) ("national Zen teacher"), an honorific conferred on him by Emperor Go-Daigo.