We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the… — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
“Dark rocks stood waiting to be sculpted by the wind. Tiny seeds rode the air, waiting to fall and take root. Under… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam.… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life,… — Neal Ascherson 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
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Of course, when you see [ musical numbers] in the movie [Out To Sea ], it's cut into a lot with other… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
Oh Mary, star of the sea, once again we recourse to thee, to find refuge and sernity, to implore your protection and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And… — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image