I absolutely love prospecting for gold
Panning, sluicing, high-banking, dredging,
sniping or metal detecting, it doesn't matter.
If you've never done it, and you love the outdoors,
then I encourage you to experience it.
Go west, that's where the gold is!
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
-- Lord Byron, (George Gordon)