She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Paddle boarding is like walking on water. Standing atop a board in the middle of the ocean, you see everything from sea… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course… — Lynn Culbreath Noel Copy Share Image
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
