“You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?” PeopleThinkingWorldSidesChanceWiseNew YorkOceanTownsSeedsJerseyNew JerseyHay Author:O. Henry
“Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.” KnowsWayGivingFeelsWellsChancePerfectKnow HowAliveBalanceOceanGive MeHittingButtonsResetPerfect BalanceReset Button Author:Jack Johnson
“We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)” IfsWarEndsSeemsFormCertainCoursesChanceCenturyOceanDisasterOptimisticInabilityPlagueComplacencyFamineNuclear WarPoisoningForecastsDrasticUnforeseen Author:John Holdren
“Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.” MenGivingBelieveMadeRealChristianFormValuesWaterChanceModernWorstHe ManOceanTreatsEnvironmentalMade ItExploitsPragmaticModern ManReal ValueCrass Author:Francis Schaeffer
“The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.” WantKindMeanTwoSometimesFactsUseCoursesChanceDependsOceanFishesDeterminedFactorsInterpretationHistorianSwimmingInaccessibleSlabs Book:What is History? Source: What is History?