“Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Thomas Gray
“I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America, from Folsom cave to now. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large, and without mercy.Charles Olson
“May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.Virgil
“The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Arthur Conan Doyle