Tolstoy and the green branch

Tolstoy felt that in the deep greenery of Yasnya Polyanna, somewhere far away in the valleys there is always a green branch—buried in the depth of earth—and that branch bears bunches of glorious letters.

Tolstoy saw those letters and that branch made his writings really glorious. He was a divine artist. Others however, wander far, in the wilderness of the mind, obsessed, in search of that green branch.