That’s what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don’t tell her. You have to remember always that she’s the...

[O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it...

There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many women who, if pressed, would describe themselves as much-married, with one husband on this ship...

I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.

Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to...

THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declareA beautiful lofty...

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to...

Thus was this expedition finished…after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth; that though prudence, intrepidity and perseverence united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series...

Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.

The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to...

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.

I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that...

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about...

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

Contentedly sat the old woman. Soon now, the sea would hold no terrors, and the blinds wouldn’t have to be down, nor the windows shut; she would even be able to walk along the shore...

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is...

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

Hazel blue anemone in a little SeaSide cave…drawing currents from the sea turquoise blue on sparkling waves. In ocean dreams, the poet waits by his grotto, passing days. Rhyming verse, his mind creates where his...

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

There is always some truth to fiction.

Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself.

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.

She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and yet… the way she sat, poised, calm, clear like a full moon night, she seemed much...

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world’s rim, you find what...

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

…They’re dangerous as all gifts from the sea are; the sea offers death as well as immortality.

My soul is full of longingfor the secret of the sea,and the heart of the great oceansends a thrilling pulse through me.

You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats...

Healthy Earth Equals Healthy Inhabitants

You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!

The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface studded with points of light that looked like constellations, fallen stars. The tourist...

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

The sea, the sea…Man alone,Passive, unawareIn his elemental sadness.

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young – and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the...

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it..

Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are...

In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world

There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road.