Words of [Poetic] Wisdom: 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”
― George Gordon Byron (also: Lord Byron)

Depictions of Nature’s Beauty…

20130621-115915.jpg(Charles Ephraim Burchfield, September Wind & Rain, 1949. Watercolor on mounted board.)

20130621-121437.jpg(Paul Cezanne, Fisherman on the Rocks, 1862-64. Oil on canvas transferred from mural.)

20130621-121800.jpg(Paul Ranson, Alums & Purple & Yellow Irises,1899.)

20130621-122244.jpg(Maurice Denis, Panorama of Cassis, 1904.)

20130621-123057.jpg(Max Pechstein, On Baltic Shore, 1921)

20130621-123937.jpg(Egon Schiele, Four Trees, 1917.)

20130621-124148.jpg(Edouard Vuillard, An Open Window overlooking Flowering Trees, 1900.)