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“I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.”

Ifs Should I Can School Sea Paid Reports Fishing Captains License

Author:Mickey Melchiondo

“The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.”

Ifs Character School Found Water Sea Essentials England Blue Endure Resolution Precision Blue Water

Book:Nelson's History of the war

Source: Nelson's History of the war

“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?”

“Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.”

May Whole School Water Fire Sea Cold Ocean Wave Fishes Surface Autumn Metals Sheets Here And There Schools Of Fish

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.”

Wells School Night Black Sea Ocean Storm Sand Silver Wet Flash Lightning Breeze Feathers Bass Short Lived Aprons Herons Halibut

Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”