Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether. - Alice Meynell

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Round the blue sea I love the best The argent foam played, slender, fleet;
I saw—past Wordsworth and the rest— Her natural, Greek, and silver feet.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.