“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”
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George Gordon Byron 227
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824Related quotes
“I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.”
The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I love not man the less, but nature more”
Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)
Variant: Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
La mer est tout! Elle couvre les sept dixièmes du globe terrestre. Son souffle est pur et sain. C'est l'immense désert où l'homme n'est jamais seul, car il sent frémir la vie à ses côtés. La mer n'est que le véhicule d'une surnaturelle et prodigieuse existence; elle n'est que mouvement et amour.
Part I, ch. X: The Man of the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
A Life on the Ocean Wave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).