The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite,--a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. -William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Complete Poetical Works

Revelation

There were giants in the earth in those days.

-Old Testament, Genesis, VI, 4


The clearest way into the Universe
is through a forest wilderness.

-John Muir

Pride

Too coy to flatter, and too proud to serve,
Thine be the joyless dignity to starve.

-Tobias Smollett, Advice

Thunder

The sky is changed,--and such a change! O night
And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong,
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light
Of a dark eye in woman! Far along,
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,
Leaps the live thunder.

-Lord Byron,
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Muse

Come then, expressive silence,
muse His praise.

-James Thomson, Hymn

Echo

YES, it was the mountain Echo,
Solitary, clear, profound,...

-William Wordsworth,
Complete Poetical Works

Crystal

Beauty is eternity gazing
at itself in a mirror.

-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Peek

Landmark

The strongest man in the world
is he who stands most alone.

-Ibsen,
An Enemy of the People, V

Cherish

Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears.

-Mrs. (David) Porter,
Thou hast wounded the Spirit