Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Clear sky is bigger than the largest rain clouds.

The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.

Landscape with Horse and Cart, Figures, and Ruins

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.