British Vistas

"... the tides visiting and revisiting the friths, the main sea dashing against the bolder shore, the rivers pursuing their course to be lost in the mighty mass of waters. ... the winds sweeping over the lakes, or piping with a loud voice among the mountain peaks; and, lastly, ... the primaeval woods shedding and renewing their leaves with no human eye to notice, or human heart to regret or welcome the change."   Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes, 1906.