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“I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.”

Way Heart Sound Tree Sea Singing Ears Hearing Lovely Forests Rough Shells Bark Trunks Sap Sea Shell

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!”

Men World Sea Possibility This World Ocean Highest Bird Aspiration Shells Cages Bosoms Deathless Moaning Sea Shell

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.”

Ifs Should Humans Heart Inspiration Would Be Sea Listening Ocean Draws Infinite Shells Human Heart Hollow Sea Shell

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.”

Years Done Moments Wanted Parent Class Trouble Sea Feet Association Shells Sailing Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Sea Shell Dinghies

Author:David Crosby

“The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.”

Body Sea Strange Lovely Shells Worn Flood Sea Shell

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.”

World Sea Beach Collections Shells Sea Shell

Author:Steven Wright

“The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.”

“I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses”

Way Hands Seems Lying Water Love Is Morning Clear Sea Missing Lifts Contemplation Afternoon Shells Jewels Stormy Sea Shell

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”

Heart Might Pain Sea Rocks Corners Boring Shells Worn Unrequited Love Unrequited Sea Shell

Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

“He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells.”

Dream Sleep Boys Sea Wall Thousand Wet Shells Smooth Mosques Sea Shell

Book:Naked lunch

Source: Naked lunch

“Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.”

Today Sea Sorry Credit Coffee Cash Shells Purses Barista Sea Shell

Author:Taylor Swift

“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.”

“A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.”

Thinking Should Might Heaven Sea Feet Baby Kissing Angel Lips Shells Sea Shell

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)