Book Quote by Brian Skerry

“The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was…

— Mary Lawson

“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was underwater, And…

— Stewart Stafford

“In my dream I was a seal, and I made love to a seagull. Then I got eaten by a shark, because that’s just…

— Jarod Kintz

Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and…

— Christopher Moore

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run…

— Robin Furth

“I think about that story a lot now. People in a boat, waiting, terrified, while implacable, unsmiling men, irresistibly strong, seize …. Maybe the…

— Tony Kushner

“the branches that stuck up from the banks of the ice covered waters. The young woman slid around”

— Mande Matthews

“snorkel fin bog water”

— Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped…

— Alice Oswald

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

— Paul Fussell

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like…

— Thomas Dolby

I swam for the county when I was 12. You wouldn't think it to look at me now, but I'm as graceful as a seal.

— Greg Davies