“Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but the waves come in in a roar and then ebb, almost silent but for the faint suck of sand and snap of bubbles, over and over, a heartbeat rhythm, the sea always this body turned inside out and opened to the sky, the body always a sea folded in on itself, a nautical chart folded into a paper cup.”
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“After the swim they argued no more; the blue Pacific had washed away all their irritation, as it generally does.”
Source: The Women in Black
“A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.”
Source: Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
“As Pacific Ocean nations, competition and cooperation between the two nations will create a new atmosphere—leading to the Birth of a ‘Pacific’ New World Order—that is more engaging and less confrontational; this can be characterized by the presence of force without war.”
Source: Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
“the ragged western fringe of Los Angeles called Venice. . . . Here the city stops its white cement sprawl, its hunger to engulf the whole earth under tons of trucked-in concrete. Here in the lap of the blind blue-eyed Pacific, Los Angeles is stopped dead by the sheer liquid cliffs of the sea. Here the trail ends. After Death Valley and Donner Pass, there is only this precarious oasis.”
“Ah, the Pacific, the silent witness to Lima's relentless evolution since its founding, what are your secrets, will you ever tell us?”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“Sometimes reality can't fix the damage done by rumours.”
“Ah, the splendor of the Atlantic dawn, akin to the bloom of morning glory! But as the sun casts its final rays upon the ocean’s edge, we bid farewell to the radiant god Helios, who, with a petit mort, falls spent into the embrace of Pacific dusk.”
Source: Long Lost Love: Diary of a Rambling Romeo: Outclassing the Men: Fearless females take the lead on this Epic Voyage