I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Centra

I wanted solitude, but a treasure like that didn't exist in the city. I only found silence in Central Park, still littered with people of course, but the only place that held moments of calm. I breathed in that wonderful silence as my pace finally slowed, and nature delighted my senses.
----Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down