Blue Sky, Red Canoe Opening Lines

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes..."

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) 

A good friend sent me these lines from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which captured what I tried to say by opening my readings of Blue Sky, Red Canoe with "Go placidly amid the noise and haste..."