"Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!
These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you,
These immense meadows—these interminable rivers
—you are immense and interminable as they,
These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature,
throes of apparent dissolution—you are he or
she who is master or mistress over them,
Master or mistress in your own right over Nature,
elements, pain, passion, dissolution."
Walt Whitman.