Besides art, little Feng-mien also loved to run barefoot through the outdoors, touching and coming to know every tree, stream, and rock. He says: "Although they couldn't talk, I felt I couldn't part from them; the feeling was very deep." Lin uses landscape painting as a form of expression.
除了徜徉在繪畫天地裡，風眠先生小時候也喜歡赤足在大自然裡頭，對於山上的樹、山間的溪，河裡的一塊塊小石頭，他都摸得既熟悉又喜愛，他說：「縱然它們不會說話，也總覺得離不開它們，可以說感情是很深的。」