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Ambrose Bierce
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Annie Dillard
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, 1986
Water flows uphill towards money.
Author Unknown
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.
Blaise Pascal
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship
The sea hath no king but God alone.
e.e. cummings
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.
George Herbert
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
H.M. Tomlinson
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
Henry David Thoreau
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
James Russell Lowell
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
John Florio
raise the sea; on shore remain.
Joseph Conrad
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
Joseph Conrad
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph W. Beach
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe.
Loren Eiseley
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Richard Jefferies
The great sea makes one a great sceptic.
Robert Henri
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity
And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful faceTime's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.
 
 
 
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