The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks,… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young. — George Luks Copy Share Image
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they… — Bill McKibben 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
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image