The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Romantic poet
From his sonnet 'The World Is Too Much with Us,' a critique of humanity's absorption in materialism and its resultant detachment from the spiritual nourishment of nature.
1802
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