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“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.”

Whole Faces Feet Ocean Ruins Awful Iron Print Vast Ocean

Author:Robert Montgomery

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.”

Men Firsts Found Wish Accepting Knowing Air Feet Ocean Track Invisible Beast Wilderness Thread Not Knowing Pathways

Book:Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

“Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.”

Love Water Feet Ready Ocean Over You Salt Smack Seagull Salt Water Taffy

Author:Daniel Handler

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”

“In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths.”

Years Might Lasts Feet Planets Buddhism Pure Ocean Depth Refuge Our Planet Auras Underwater Scuba Scuba Divers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.”

Ifs Writing Would Be Feet Thousand Ocean Down And Inspired Be Inspired Submarines

Author:Sylvia Earle

“When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

Knows Way Littles Hands Seems Sides Sun Feet Mountain Travel Ocean Setting Settings Chains Mortals Hopefully Labour Continents Blessedness True Success Toiling Spires

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.”

Way Two Home Hands Might Stars White Animal Sea Feet Thousand Ocean Hundred Blue Pounds Paradox Killers Living Things Sharks Whales Milky Way Two Hands

Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

“I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way.”

Way Feelings Feet Return Balance Ocean Calm Sand Grounded Adrenaline Calm Down

Author:Jason Mraz

“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”

“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or growth of reefs over the bottom is impossible.”

Has Beens Facts Grows Growth Simple Greater Growing Impossible Sea Feet Ocean Negative Depth Bottom Deeper Formation Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:James Dwight Dana

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.”

Ifs Ideas Water Feet Ocean Nine Swim

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.”

Long Made Water Records Feet Months Ocean Seven Fishes Beach Shore Swimming Miami

Author:Michael Stipe

“Jumping off that cliff in Jamaica.It was years ago. It was at this place called Rick's Cafe. Actually, it was two cliffs. They were pretty high, probably a good 40- 50-foot jump into the ocean. That was crazy.”

Years Two Feet Crazy Ocean Years Ago Jumping Cliffs Cafes Jamaica Jumping Off

Author:Queen Latifah