“For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.” WorldYearsHas BeensBigsWaterMillionsAirThis WorldPlanetsOceanSeasonsSpeciesIncludingForestsWeatherAtmosphereTemperatureLiving OnGreat GiftsWoods And Forests Author:Rebecca Solnit
“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“Abundance is the natural state of the universe--of this there can be no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us.” Has BeensStatesSpiritualUniverseHeavenStarsWaterNaturalNumbersDoubtMaterialsBlessingOceanPreparedNo DoubtAbundanceCountingDrop Of Water Book:A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom Source: A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom
“The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.” Has BeensPastOceanFlowIndiaSymbolsMemorable Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.” Has BeensWarMomentsBlackDangerousPossibilityOceanRingsIndianCaptureEgyptConquestAlarmsHeadingsNaval Author:Winston Churchill
“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.” WorldYearsHas BeensDoneFactsAbleLeftForceBreakAirTerribleEssentialsOceanArmyObviousFallenGutsSovietCould Have BeenSlaughter Author:Winston Churchill
“One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.” KnowsHeartLittlesHas BeensPastStarsWatchesOne DayOceanHearingBoatChestsBuriedContinentsFloats Author:Zachary Schomburg