Atlantic ocean Quote by Henry David Thoreau

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar…

— James Hollis

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

— Edward Carpenter

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

— Yasunari Kawabata

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“They’re all in church,” he said and saw the flush of guilt, or of wind, on her broad cheeks. The wind lifted his own…

— Alice McDermott

Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as…

— Thor Heyerdahl

“In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another because sound…

— Douglas Adams

Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly…

— Scott O'Dell

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it…

— Brian Skerry

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound…

— Bram Stoker

We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from…

— Federico Garcia Lorca