Contemplating Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place.…

— Henry David Thoreau

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has…

— Joseph Conrad

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

— M. F. K. Fisher

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the…

— Rachel Carson

The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies.…

— Carl Safina

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting…

— Helen Keller

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

— Bryan Procter

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

— Alan Bennett

Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing…

— Rachel Carson

cause down the shore everything's all right

— Bruce Springsteen