Little bit of Wordsworth...
Maybe a little hard to keep in mind when you're trying to get that report in to work/school, get to work/school on time, walk the dog, feed the kids/cats, fill up your gas tank and take care of the car, get in a workout, and do whatever else you need to get done in a day, but I think William Wordsworth's words ring as true or more true today than they did in the late 1700s when he wrote them...
This especially struck a chord with me when after being in my aunt's house all day with my various relatives, eating too many sweets and watching the rain fall outside in a fine mist, feeling out of place and harassed, I went for a run in the park and it was quiet and absoultely empty, cool and calm and simply lovely with the water on the leaves and the clouds touching the tree tops...
The World Is Too Much with Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everthing, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
[ I <3 Wordsworth. ]