Society Is Like A Lawn, Where Every Roughness Is Smoothed, Every
Bramble Eradicated, And Where The Eye Is Delighted By The Smiling
Verdure Of A Velvet Surface.
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every
bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling
verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature
in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore
the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
-- Washington Irving