Here in the woods, perhaps we can listen with the heart and with the spirit, and hear the trees speak of growth, and the earth of seeds and silence, and looking up to the sky, hear sunlight singing. Pathless woods, steeped in peace and towering between heaven and earth would, I think, have that answer waiting for us if we were receptive enough to hear it. Lord Byron Favorite 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. It says: 'There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more.' -Lord Byron It is illustrated with trees on a gray background. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. In the woods there must be a sense that time has ceased and that for a moment we pause on the edge of some extraordinary discovery, that for the space of a heartbeat we are close to knowledge, on the verge of the solution to all problems, on the threshold of an answer. This quote by Lord Byron is for nature lovers. And, unless a leaf fell or a bird sang, there would be silence in the woods except for one's own footsteps which would, I dare say, be hushed also. And, looking up, a patch of bright blue sky. In many ways it is the archetypal first approximation of a romantic poem, both for Lord Byron’s contemporaries and disciples and for an understanding of English romanticism’s conception of the relationship between nature and literature. I find myself enchanted by Byron's "pathless woods," and it isn't hard to visualize them: tall, crowding trees, between which you make your way the scent of earth and foliage and of evergreens. The crucial fact about Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is that it is a poem. Throughout the film, there is a certain stillness. This quote by Lord Byron opens one of my favorite movies Into The Wild. So walk with me a little while in the pathless woods and reflect upon the unknown. Pathless Woods - Join Our DiscordAbout the GameBuild Your Own MasterpiecesPut your crafting skills to the test and construct a variety of structures that embody the essence of ancient Chinese architecture. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.-Lord Byron. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
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