Understanding nature.

I would like to make a comparison of Wordsworth's idea of experiencing something and coming back to it to understand the beauty and Andy Goldsworth's  (an artist who works with nature's found objects) philosophy of nature and art

Andy Goldsworthy uses materials he finds in nature to create an installation without using man-made products to keep it together so eventually his piece of art is destroyed by nature-wind blows it away, water waves take it down, water streams take it away. Well instead of Goldsworthy feeling upset he lets nature take his installation away because it is his gift to nature- he would not have been able to create it without nature. This is how Goldsworthy explains his relationship with nature "I have become aware of raw nature is in a state of change and how that change is the key to understanding...When a change comes, the idea must alter or it will, and often does, fail. I am sometimes left stranded by a change in the weather with half-understood feelings that have to travel with me until conditions are right for them to appear" (http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/philosophy.html).

Goldsworthy's philosophy is similar to Wordsworth because in "Tintern Abbey" Wordsworth decided to enjoy the spot on the hill only after he changed in "Five years" and so did nature. He believed in order to understand he had to let go of all abstractions and let nature take control-this is what Goldsworthy did too. Not only did it help him understand nature's role, but his own in the world of nature.