The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems. — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake Copy Share Image
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming. — Billy Nungesser Copy Share Image
A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“The home world exercises its siren call over us all. No matter how far we wander, or how long we are gone,… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“The Three-Decker "The three-volume novel is extinct." Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail. It cost a watch to steer… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Words and stories washed ashore on that ancient way of the sea, and we made of them new songs. The sun came… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image