Character Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that…

— Woodrow Wilson

Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that…

— Felix Adler

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul…

— Edward Dahlberg

“The voyage on the common sea towards some unknown place is perhaps more human than the abstract path to the world’s void.”

— Fernando Pessoa

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod…

— John Donne

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where…

— Jules Verne

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all…

— Alexander Smith

“That is the essential wisdom of the sea, its paradox. It quickens us, extends us, prompts feats of innovation and courage, then washes them…

— Philip Marsden

The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt