Happiness is ...Sitting beside a Stream

"Strange are the feelings that come to us when we are alone with the earth and sky. They are feelings that contradict not only the injustice of the foolish, but the justice of the wise. 

   The sands of the seashore may not remember the steps that printed them, nor the stones of the roadside the feet that passed them by. The undulant tides of the air, washing back and forth, may have no knowledge of the troubled heads that their unseen presence filled with magical calm. And yet it was these things that rebuked us. It was these things that melted the heart within us."

(John Cowper Powys, The Philosophy of Solitude)