Sunset by the lake
Sunset by the lake, Marakele National Park, South Africa

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons—the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.


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