Systematic recreation is no small part of life as giving illumination and insight to its toil. Neither is well save in the full reflection of the other. Fortunately more men find relief in social relaxation than in rustication. I have owed my habitual preference for the solitude of nature in part to a weariness that grew more weary among men. Men make a demand that it requires more vivacity to meet, while nature steals in restfully at every sense, giving all and asking nothing.
Nature is the more divine, the more creative, the more recreative.
Wisconsin Authors and Their Works. The Parker Educational Company, 1918.