It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth;… — Megasthenes Copy Share Image
“Far, far out on the open sea a platform of stone held firm against the tossing waves. At first sight, it appeared… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a… — Vance Bourjaily Copy Share Image
My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And I can tell by the way you're searching For something you can't even name That you haven't been able to come… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The snow grew deeper as we laboured down the hill. The land was a flat white pall, spread out like rumpled wool.… — Caroline Lea Copy Share Image
and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge,… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
What can I do my friends, if I do not know? I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
If you have a temperature rise, if it's a problem in one area, it's beneficial in another area. But sea level is… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
On a clear day, rise and look around you and you'll see who you are on a clear day, how it will… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much,… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image