Ifs Quote by Virginia Woolf

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as…

— Virginia Woolf

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own…

— Alice Oswald

“The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped.…

— Lynne Matson

All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was…

— Herman Melville

“The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse...…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

— Tim O'Brien

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

— Walt Whitman

And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no…

— Rachel Carson