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“Brook trout brocade lakes with a vermiculation of colors that extend till their dorsal fin.”

Fish Trout Oracle Ghost Tracks Estuaries Brook Dorsal Fin

Book:Ghost Tracks

Source: Ghost Tracks

“At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.”

Littles Ends Beautiful Used Names Areas Block Miami Grove Coconuts Estuaries

Author:Karen Russell

“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”

Age Sea Aging Spread Old Age Estuaries

Author:Walt Whitman

“WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.”

Source: Light Years

“Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.”

Made Country Natural Progress Seeing Resources Valuable Reincarnation Rebirth Natural Resources Delaware Estuaries

Author:Jim Gerlach

“Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.”

Percent Fishes Estuaries

Author:Jim Gerlach

“The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.”

Needs Long Sound Unique Islands Protected Corny Long Island Estuaries

Author:Tim Bishop

“A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money.”

Made Home Ocean Hollywood Praise Filled Dare Honey Drag Halloween Limbs Glitter Thighs Velvet Whining Arses Harem Essex Estuaries

Author:Russell Brand

“Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...”

Ifs Bigs Eye Stars Hurt Taken Fire Hair Arms Skins Brown Throat Delicate Veins Violet Prey Malice Kitten Childlike Lashes Strawberries Sideways Airy Estuaries Fjords

Book:Nightfall

Source: Nightfall

“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 Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.”

Years Humans Ends Century Population Transformed 19th Century Industrialization Human Population Delaware Watersheds Estuaries

Author:Jim Gerlach