As a poet of Nature, stands supreme.

He is a worshipper of Nature, Nature’s

devotee or high-priest. His love of Nature was probably truer, and more tender, than
that of any other English poet, before or since. Nature comes to occupy in his poem a
separate or independent status and is not treated in a casual or passing manner as by
poets before him. Wordsworth had a full-fledged philosophy, a new and original view of
Nature. Three points in his creed of Nature may be noted:
(a) He conceived of Nature as a living Personality. He believed that there is a divine spirit
pervading all the objects of Nature. This belief in a divine spirit pervading all the objects
of Nature may be termed as mystical Pantheism and is fully expressed in Tintern
Abbey and in several passages in Book II of The Prelude.
(b) Wordsworth believed that the company of Nature gives joy to the human heart and he
looked upon Nature as exercising a healing influence on sorrow-stricken hearts.
(c) Above all, Wordsworth emphasized the moral influence of Nature. He spiritualised
Nature and regarded her as a great moral teacher, as the best mother, guardian
and nurse of man, and as an elevating influence. He believed that between man and
Nature there is mutual consciousness, spiritual communion or ‘mystic intercourse’. He
initiates his readers into the secret of the soul’s communion with Nature. According to
him, human beings who grow up in the lap of Nature are perfect in every respect.
Wordsworth believed that we can learn more of man and of moral evil and good
from Nature than from all the philosophies. In his eyes, “Nature is a teacher whose
wisdom we can learn, and without which any human life is vain and incomplete.” He
believed in the education of man by Nature. In this he was somewhat influenced by
Rousseau. This inter-relation of Nature and man is very important in considering
Wordsworth’s view of both.
Cazamian says that “To Wordsworth, Nature appears as a formative influence
superior to any other, the educator of senses and mind alike, the sower in our hearts of
the deep-laden seeds of our feelings and beliefs. It speaks to the child in the fleeting
emotions of early years, and stirs the young poet to an ecstasy, the glow of which
illuminates all his work and dies of his life.”.

The moon is the most explored body in our solar system besides Earth, having been
visited by numerous spacecraft from multiple space agencies around the world. It's
also the only place besides Earth where human beings have set foot.

Significant Dates:
 1609: Thomas Harriot becomes the first person to use a telescope aimed at the
sky and sketches the moon. Later he made the first maps of the moon.
 1610: Galileo Galilei publishes scientific observations of the moon in Sidereus
Nuncius(Starry Messenger).
 1959-1976: The U.S.S.R.'s Luna program of 17 robotic missions achieves many
"firsts" — including the first glimpse of the far side of the moon — and three
sample returns.
 1961-1968: The U.S. Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, and Surveyor robotic missions pave
the way for Apollo human lunar landings.
 1969: Astronaut Neil Armstrong is the first human to walk on the moon's surface.
 1994-1999: Clementine and Lunar Prospector data suggest that water ice may
exist at the lunar poles.
 2003: The European Space Agency's SMART-1 lunar orbiter inventories key
chemical elements.
 2007-2008: Japan's second lunar spacecraft, Kaguya, and China's first lunar
spacecraft, Chang'e 1, both begin one-year missions orbiting the moon; India's
Chandrayaan-1 soon follows in lunar orbit.
 2008: The NASA Lunar Science Institute is formed to help lead NASA's research
activities related to lunar exploration goals.
 2009: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCROSS launch together,
beginning the U.S. return to lunar exploration. In October, LCROSS was directed
to impact a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south pole, resulting in
the discovery of water ice. LRO is still exploring the moon from orbit.
 2011: Twin GRAIL spacecraft launch to map the interior of the moon from crust
to core, and NASA begins the ARTEMIS mission to study the moon's interior and
surface composition. After a successful mission, the twin GRAIL spacecraft were
directed to impact the moon in 2012.
 2013: NASA launches LADEE to gather detailed information about the structure
and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere. The successful mission ended in
April 2014.
 14 December 2013: China becomes the third nation to safely land a robotic
spacecraft on the moon with the touchdown and deployment of Chang'e 3's Yutu
rover.
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