 He took such a delight in nature, not so much the delight that a romantic might take in the overall beauty of it all, but a delight in its richness and complexity, in the detail that he found in the structure of mosses and in the behaviour of insects. … It’s as if in a strange way he was part of it ….  (quoted in D. Hyde, Introduction to Eckert (ed.) 2018, xxv).