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
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This quote comes from Lord Byron's "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" (1809). Byron was an English Romantic poet active in the early 19th century. He is considered one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read today.

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