My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake. . . No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 12 feet above sea level.
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2. 2°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.
Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.