After Quote by John Sexton

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in…

— Yvor Winters

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two…

— Laurie R. King

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds…

— Timothy Morton

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an…

— Ross Macdonald

“I knew from experience that before you went swimming off a dock for the first time each summer, you needed to check the sides…

— Jennifer Echols

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every…

— Albert Camus

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it…

— Madeline Miller

When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on…

— Sonia Braga

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the…

— Charles Kingsley

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

— John Naisbitt

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

— Dorothy Richardson

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley