“A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for some lesion or… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints and… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the… — Corey Ford Copy Share Image
“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When… — Aesop Copy Share Image
An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown; And amidst the flashing and feathery… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.' Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Years! Years, ye shall mix with me! Ye shall grow a part Of the laughing Sea; Of the moaning heart Of the… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C warmer than… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all.… — Howell Raines 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
On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you'll see who you are. On a clear day, how it will… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image