Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Look Yonder - Nature

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on;
you have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear
- what remains?

Nature remains."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
Specimen Days and Collect,
"New Themes Entered Upon" (1882)

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