Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England,… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more,… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits -… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is no they, only us. We are part of a large fellowship called the human race. We all hurt the same.… — Marianne Williamson 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
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
The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
