Goes on Quote by Diane Ackerman

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

— Charles Churchill

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie…

— Hal Borland

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear…

— William Butler Yeats

It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk…

— Banana Yoshimoto

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

— Anonymous

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

— Ernest K. Gann

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

— Seneca the Younger

I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like…

— Christian Fennesz

I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.

— Ben Howard

There is not one right way to ride a wave.

— Jamie O'Brien

I live just above a creek, and it's always very active. It almost sounds like the ocean. It's constant, and there's lots of big…

— Lizz Wright