ما من كاتب تقريبًا إلا وقد تغنّى بسعادة الخلوة الريفية، وأمتع نفسه وقارئه بألحان الطيور، وهمس الأحراش، وخرير الجداول.

“There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.”Samuel Johnson — The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752 (1825)