And this
love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the
nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and Eternal Wisdom, gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort
of necessity, but rather that you freely bestowed your
love, out
of the
boundless flood
of your
loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»
Like many Impressionist landscapes, Morris» paintings convey two things: first, his
boundless love of nature, along with a fascination for light, atmosphere and distance; second, his compositional ability, an essential quality for rapid outdoor painting.