Sometimes you just have to lie back and absorb the pure power of nature. As this darling is in the ever-evocative Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's vision of "Capri".

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As a civilization our people, even our children, spend far too much time sitting down, far too much time inside, and far too much time alone...so a world like this painting suggests feels like it would be such a refreshing change....

"A Ride by the Sea", by Heywood Hardy.

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