Notes from Maggie's Farm: A Pleasure in the Pathless Woods Purgatory Creek Natural Area, San Marcos

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,

From these our interviews, in which I steal

From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the Universe, and feel

What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal,,,

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

George Gordon Byron, 1788 - 1824