Rough seas Quote by Diane Ackerman

“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible;…

— James A. Michener

“There is serenity and calm under the water's surface. You move easily and glimpse a world you have never seen before. You think of…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had…

— Virginia Woolf

“There is a mystical quality to the place where sea meets land, the clashing of two very different worlds. Yet continuity remains between them.…

— F.G. Capitanio

“Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the…

— Romain Rolland

“My brothers and I spent weeks with our grandparents by the sea where we learned so much more than it may have seemed. Not…

— Jay Griffiths

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Now when he closes his eyes he can really look at himself. He no longer sees a mask. He sees without seeing, to be…

— Henry Miller

“Settling in, Marin sailed away from the painted cliffs and the twin islands of the lovers. The wind was strong and steady, and the…

— Sarah Beth Durst

“Whales, porpoises, mermaids and mermen, dead sailors, fishes, crabs, tiny shrimps; the sea is forever full of eyes that watch me. I never fly…

— Mari Strachan

“This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter obeys the principles of perfection and trial, a…

— John Hay

“In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the pebbles and…

— Frantz Fanon