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. Cold, windy but lots of sunshine, true there was a good deal of clouds about but the high wind kept them scudding along. 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. not my words, but exactly my sentiment on a weekend when the weather started so well. This quote by Lord Byron is for nature lovers. 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. ' There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods'. There is pleasure in the pathless woods There is 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. 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. & LEAVE A COMMENT Lyrics by Lord George Gordon ByronAdditional Lyrics & Music by Rusty Reid Recording Copyright 2019 Northern Latitudes. 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. 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. So walk with me a little while in the pathless woods and reflect upon the unknown. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
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