"They were sitting/They were sitting on the strawberry swing/Every moment was so precious ... People moving all the time/Inside a perfectly straight line/Don't you wanna curve away?/When it's such/It's such a perfect day/It's such a perfect day." (Coldplay)
"To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality." (Paul Shepherd, Man in the Landscape)
"No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a frangrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, is more starry, more immortal, - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. ... The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of the morning and evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched." (Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods)
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