I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world.
I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta. " Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.
You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.
I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.
To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown. )
The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.