Coastal Quote by Jim Gerlach

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

— Tim Bishop

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

— Walt Whitman

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress…

— Jim Gerlach

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea.…

— Tamora Pierce

The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and…

— Henry Beston

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with…

— Karen Russell

“In a sense Provincetown is a beach. If you stand on the shore watching the tide recede, you are merely that much closer to…

— Michael Cunningham

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there…

— Charles Lyell

“The state of coastal waters reflects the nature of souls that surround it.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our…

— Henry David Thoreau

Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are…

— Robert Adams

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

— Jim Gerlach