Drift Quote by Robert Macfarlane

“At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the…

— Elizabeth Bishop

From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till…

— Robert Southey

“An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish" Here we have thirst and patience, from the first, and art, as in…

— Marianne Moore

“White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like white flakes.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Its not a glass, its a heart so it can remake even break in lots of pieces its not a rock as it behaves…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and painfully as…

— William T. Vollmann

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

— Lee Wulff

“Driftglass," I said. "You know all the Coca-Cola bottles and cut-crystal punch bowls and industrial silicon slag that goes into the sea?" I know…

— Samuel R. Delany

“In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant—the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There you stand,…

— Herman Melville

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

— Robinson Jeffers

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

— Anonymous

“this creature moved on all fours. Long, pointed ears lay flat against the monster's head. The long, tapered snout was wrinkled into a snarl,…

— Graeme Reynolds