“Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.” DoeStillsEarthHeavenSeaOceanRiversDrinkingBoundariesShoreEvermore Book:Poems and prose Source: Poems and prose
“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.” WorldLongEarthNightFaithSeaWindBreathsLaysRoundsEdgesNakedMelancholyShoreFoldsWithdrawingGirdlesShinglesRound Earth Author:Matthew Arnold
“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.” WorldCountryEyeEarthTogetherSpiritCultureStrongNationsDifferencesWealthPowerfulPathRichMilitaryPromiseUniversityEnvySpiteMost PowerfulShoreUncertainUnseenBetter PlaceAmerican SpiritAround The Bend Author:Barack Obama
“Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.” HumansLongDoeShowsActionEarthPastGoneEternalShoreBarkAcresTombstoneReefs Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.” LooksLongLightSeemsMightEarthHouseEmotionMorningSeaShareWindAngelTransformationSilentCloudsFishesActiveBarsDustShoreSunriseFloatsRapidsEnchantmentSlenderCrimsonDaybreak Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures