He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. — Horace Copy Share Image
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and… — John Gorka Copy Share Image
I would say that I mostly use Kosher Salt for seasoning my water and flour. I love sea salt, too. I think… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely… — Hendrik Tennekes Copy Share Image
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it,… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security… — Samuel Johnson 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
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru.… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places,… — Oscar Wilde 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