Details: The painting features a landscape with rolling hills and a darkish sky. The hills are depicted in shades of green representing nature and the environment of wild animals, with the left hill appearing in a deep tone of a soothing dark green and the right hill in a medium green, suggesting health and fertility. In the midst of this natural setting, stands a bird framed by a block of ice as if stopped and frozen in its tracks. The bird is giving the impression that it is looking back toward the viewer. This Looking Back to see Ahead approach suggests the farther backward you look, the further forward you can see, as if the bird disapproves of people's attitudes and actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.