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“Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.”

Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

“It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort. Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.”

Years Firsts Today Can Do Effort Type Proud Activity Ocean Clean International Campaigns Beach Appropriate Participating Annuals Coastal

Author:Ted Danson

“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.”

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Book:Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky

Source: Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky

“Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.”

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Author:Bronislaw Malinowski

“Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.”

Enough Energy Challenges Cities Environment Impossible Majors Tasks Climate Change Weather Destroyed Dozen Flood Hurricanes Drought Rebuilding Flooding Coastal

Book:Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

“It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.”

Ifs Knows Mind Water Levels Cities Millions Growing Sea Feet Civilization Rivers Chaos Climate Change Metaphor Ice Saving Rising Abandoned Refuge Sheets Asia Rice Coastal Delta Greenland

Author:Lester R. Brown

“Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.”

“I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.”

Born Sea Ocean Areas Wave Cancer Wide Beach Sunny Crabs Coastal Deep Sea Ocean Wave

Author:Anjelica Huston

“Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.”

Men Hands Kids Misery Shelves Misers Coastal

Author:Philip Larkin

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

Source: Life and death in a coral sea

“If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?”

Ifs Knows Government Today Chance Levels Cities Sea Protect Climate Intense Posts Rising Dozen New Orleans Hurricanes Coastal

Book:Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

“We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.”

America Opportunity Effort Right Now Unique Red Blue Climate Urban Banner Unifying Coastal Unique Opportunities Red And Blue Urban And Rural

Author:William J. Clinton

“I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.”

Ifs Stills I Can Earth Water Sleep Levels Glasses Shaking Trembling Coastal

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.”

People Needs Care Jobs Water Quality Safe Resources South Improvement Secure Health Care Borders Texas Infrastructure Quality Education Coastal

Author:Ruben Hinojosa

“The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.”

Years Energy Records Development Paid Oil Gas Alaska High Prices Coastal Oil And Gas

Author:Kenny Marchant

“A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.”

Love Beautiful Values Found My Own Activity Towns Comparison Zero Festivals Brazil Charisma Annuals Utopian Matched Coastal

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.”

Animal Rich Mountain Areas Plant Desert Biodiversity Reefs Coastal Coral Reefs

Author:Saadi

“We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.”

Country States Home Bigs Care Levels Land Cold Highest Shots Rate Population Access Health Care Healthcare Ownership Participation Workforce Coastal Big Shots Home Ownership

Author:Tim Pawlenty

“Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.”

“Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.”

Sound Sea Rivers Harbors Coastal Lagoons Estuaries

Author:Jim Gerlach

“The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.”

Way Government Trouble Sacrifice Planets Wind Economics Britain Insult Aesthetics Countryside Thesis Coastal Save The Planet

Author:Simon Jenkins

“Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.”

Country Cities Towns Indian Socialist Centre Malls Coastal Socialist Countries

Author:Aravind Adiga

“Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.”

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Author:Tea Leoni

“Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.”

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Author:Russel Honore

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