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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the Lonely shore, There… — Lord Byron

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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
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · 1818
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Spending time in natureNatureSolitude
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Poem
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1818
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Lord Byron
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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 4, st. 178.
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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 4, st. 178.

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